Basic rights Quote by William Greider

Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present…

— William Greider

Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are…

— Vaclav Havel

Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood;…

— Pope Pius XI

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot…

— Anonymous

To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an…

— Bill Mollison

“So long as people give priority to material values, then injustice, inequity, intolerance, and greed - all the outward manifestations of neglect of our…

— Dalai Lama

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others, so does…

— Henry George

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly…

— John Hancock

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for…

— Silvia Cartwright

All rights, however noble, impose duties on others, even if in many cases we wholeheartedly agree that the benefits outweigh the costs. And the…

— Suella Braverman

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

— Jennifer Weiner