Human rights Quote by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Authority in the world is being increasingly undermined until at the end all authorities will be overthrown and lawlessness shall rule.”

— Watchman Nee

“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority…

— James Madison

“Western capitalist society, and especially my own American society, is one characterized by great inequalities. In any such society, by the nature of the…

— Allen W. Wood

“If the entire society was conscious of its duties, nobody would need to fight for their individual rights. Since everybodys's rights would be automatically…

— Amish Tripathi

“When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.”

— Ayn Rand

“governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of…

— Declaration of Independence

“It takes no compromise to give people their rights...it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people…

— Harvey Milk

“At the same time, instead of limiting the power of the state, alleged human rights have begun to enhance that power, and to bring…

— Roger Scruton

“Protecting life and human rights cannot just be a local affair, but a global, a universal condition.”

— Perri Birney

“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila