“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The problem with today's culture is that we have too many rights and not enough wrongs.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
“While the Declaration of Rights was before the National Assembly some of its members remarked that if a declaration of rights were… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Nash’s lifelong quest for meaning, control, and recognition in the context of a continuing struggle, not just in society, but in the… — Sylvia Nasar Copy Share Image
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and… — John Rawls Copy Share Image