Men Quote by Thomas Paine

“Man did not enter into society to become worse than he was before, nor to have fewer rights than he had before, but to…

— Thomas Paine

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.

— Roger Sherman

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

— B. F. Skinner

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

— Thomas Jefferson

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

— H. L. Mencken

It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived…

— Learned Hand

“The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.”

— Richard Llewellyn

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

— Ayn Rand

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

— Ayn Rand

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V -…

— John Ralston Saul

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights…

— Eleanor Roosevelt