Entering Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

— Marquis de Lafayette

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

— Jeremy Bentham

The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.

— Tom Stoppard

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving something behind.

— George Washington Carver

We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality…

— John Trudell

“Education, medical treatment, and work are the natural rights of every citizen in the world.”

— Alaa Al Aswany

It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that so many…

— Paul Polman

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

— Thomas Paine

“A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime; whether committed by one…

— Lysander Spooner

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping…

— Ronald Reagan

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Bryant McGill