Action Quote by Noam Chomsky

When people consent to do something, they should be able to do whatever they want.

— Rob Lowe

Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as…

— Hugo Adam Bedau

If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take part in…

— Peter McWilliams

If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

— Stuart Briscoe

Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and…

— Simone Weil

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy…

— Federica Montseny

“Creating consent (hegemony) is never a simple act. It is rather the result of the social structures and the cultural patterns that dictates for…

— Amine Zidouh

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

— Ouida

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or…

— William Cobbett

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it,…

— John Adams

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

— Ai Weiwei