Natural rights Quote by John Stuart Mill

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

— Jeremy Bentham

“But there is something appealing about it here too, a freedom, a refusal to belong to theses arbitrary categories we've made for ourselves.”

— Veronica Roth

“Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.”

— Bryant McGill

“There is nothing truthful, wise, humane, or strategic about confusing hostility to injustice and oppression, which is leftist, with hostility to science and rationality,…

— Michael Albert

“[I]n many ways nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth. Anyone can believe in the truth. To believe in nonsense is…

— Mencius Moldbug

“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”

— John Maynard Keynes

“I have not the power adequately to describe them without committing a breach of the laws of decent speech.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“What I mean to do is pass from unobvious nonsense to obvious nonsense”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.”

— Justice Frankfurter

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

— Lynn Hunt

“The rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present…

— Thomas Jefferson