Conditions Quote by William Ernest Hocking

Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.

— William Ernest Hocking

Principle II: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason…

— William Ernest Hocking

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the…

— George Washington

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

— Abraham Lincoln

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its…

— Anonymous

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

— Roland Barthes

“a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.”

— Russell Shorto

Rights are in the power of the people.

— Ken Starr

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights,…

— Edmund Burke

Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature ...

— Pope Leo XIII

“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila