Claims Quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt Download Open image “The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Claims Dissent Existential Existentialism Individual
Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
“My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.” — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right. — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent. — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Dissent is difficult. It can constitute a real dilemma for the person who disagrees. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“...he had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance movement, von Lambert refused to call them… — Friedrich Dürrenmatt Copy Share Image
People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and,… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Those who do not know what love is likens it to beauty Those who claim to know what love is likens it to ugliness… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
