Acting Quote by Thomas Paine

A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of movement, feeling,…

— Frank Van Dun

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

— Thomas Jefferson

In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are to be…

— Clarence Darrow

“The very notion of “natural rights” is a mere fiction, and the antitraditional and subversive use of that is well documented. There is no…

— Julius Evola

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Jeremy Bentham

Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or…

— L. Neil Smith

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

“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

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his…

— Thomas Hobbes

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of…

— Gerrit Smith

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men…

— Angelina Grimke