Astonishing Quote by Guy de Maupassant

“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death…

— Guy de Maupassant

Governments are not always right.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

The right to die can so easily become the duty to die.

— Peter Saunders

The right to die can easily become the duty to die.

— Peter Saunders

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

— Frances Perkins

Killing is always wrong, even governments are not exceptions.

— Vijayashanti

“If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why…

— Michel Templet

Individuals? Or members of society? That's what the right to die is about.

— Julian Baggini

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.

— Tom Tancredo

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

— Edward Gibbon

There is no right government except good government.

— George Santayana

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

— Richard Stallman