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«The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.»
Author: Christine Stevens
| Keywords:
animal, animal rights, basis, dominant, golden, Golden Rule, position, rights, rule, species, The Golden Rule, treat
«Property has its duties as well as its rights»
«The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
Best interests, essentially, Individual right, individual rights, interested, Nothing More, private, private interest, protection, protections, public, public good, rights, The Public Interest
«Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights,even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way out, slam the door. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
demand, march, on the way, rights, Saturday, Saturday Night, Saturday Night Live, slam, slamming, slams, talking, talking to, way out
«Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
human being, human right, noble, rights, safeguarded, Safeguarding, safeguards
«Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
according, ADD, drawn, equal, Equal rights, extent, individual, individual liberty, Individual right, individual rights, law, liberty, limits, plenitude, rightful, rights, right to liberty, The Law, tyrant, unobstructed, violates, violating
«The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded»
«The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
individuals, Individual right, individual rights, interest, interests, precedence, private, private interest, public, public interest, rights, supersede, superseded, supersedes, The Public Interest
«People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Confidence,
Gifts,
Trust
| Keywords:
complete, conferring, confers, confer with, false, inference, inferences, no confidence, ours, rights
«Peace is more than just the absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom. And true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
absence, dictates, dictating, Human rights, justice, justice of the peace, Just War, Peace and Freedom, recognition, rights
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