Doctrine Quote by Auberon Herbert

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of…

— Ayn Rand

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to…

— Ayn Rand

The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years…

— Ayn Rand

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

— Frances Wright

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The belief in some being who can be the judge of all human matters is a very comfortable one - all wrongs will be…

— Eli Khamarov

When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when…

— Helen Keller

True rights, such as those in our Constitution, or those considered to be natural or human rights, exist simultaneously among people. That means exercise…

— Walter E. Williams

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator…

— John Adams

The supreme issue, involving all the others, is the encroachment of the few upon the rights of the many.

— Robert La Folette

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

— Ayn Rand

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

— Shirin Ebadi