Human rights Quote by Ayn Rand

“[I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characterized the last fifty or so years, there has…

— Darren O'Donnell

“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

“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

“Writing of only one small part of the broader problem, namely the single-minded pursuit of individualistic 'rights,' [Don] Feder is not wrong to conclude:…

— D.A. Carson

“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

“The concept of human rights had been invented by people who were thinking only of human beings”

— Yōko Tawada

“Humans are born with human rights. Those human rights are inherent—”

— Thom Hartmann

“A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's…

— Ayn Rand

“Doing the rights things, even though no one knows about it, is much better to me than being known as a person who does…

— Scott S. Haraburda

“Without a criterion enabling us to distinguish genuine human rights from the many impostors we will never be sure that our legal provisions, however…

— Roger Scruton

“Human rights are difficult to pin down because their definition, indeed their very existence, depends on emotions as much as on reason.”

— Lynn Hunt

“Human rights start with the freedom of equal income and educational opportunity. The deep-rooted inequalities like gender, colour, race and religion discriminations can be…

— Amit Ray