Quote by David Mitchell Download Open image ““Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion.”” — David Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Those who speak of our rights as if they were privileges have as their objective the plunder of our property, and our eventual enslavement.” — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Those who fail to claim their natural rights as men risk being treated as the property of others, rather than as human beings with… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.” — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
“The rights of the individual are more important than the wishes of the masses.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
“a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“These rights stand above the law of the land and, being universal in nature, are common to civilized society everywhere in the world. Thus,… — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
