Absolutes Quote by William Ernest Hocking

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

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill…

— Leland Stanford

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

The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency…

— Francis Hutcheson

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights…

— Thomas Paine

“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only master of…

— Suzy Kassem

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal…

— Joseph Priestley

Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to…

— J. G. Holland

“First, That every civil right grows out of a natural right; or, in other words, is a natural right exchanged. Secondly, That civil power…

— Thomas Paine

Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his…

— Robert Ringer