Essential Rights Quotes

#1. There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

Geoffrey Fisher

#2. Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#3. To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity ... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.

Ai Weiwei

#4. When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.

Alexander Hamilton

#5. Conscience is a man's compass.

Vincent Van Gogh

#6. Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

Joichi Ito

#7. The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights ...

Ayn Rand

#8. When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.

John C. Calhoun

#9. The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

John Charles Polanyi

#10. The fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#11. The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word ... courteous manners, a generous regard for the rights of others, and, above all, integrity which admits of no qualification or variation.

William A. Clark

#12. Hitchens: Since we only have one life to live, I can help people make it free as best I can, and assist them in their real struggle for liberty, which in its most essential form, is the struggle against theocracy, which is the original form of dictatorship and the violation of human rights.

Keith Howard

#13. In this film George presents issues that are important, essential and vital, whoever you are, about constitutional rights and the bedrock of a democracy. I am drawn to those kinds of stories because they inspire me - they are responsible to a populace and responsible to man.

David Strathairn

#14. The rights essential to happiness ... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

John Dickinson

#15. Every man - in the development of his own personality - has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of man, a negation of man's essential nature.
[Toward a General Theory of the First Amendment (1963)]

Thomas I. Emerson

#16. While an equality of rights under a limited government is possible and an essential condition of individual freedom, a claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Friedrich Hayek

#17. Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

Daisaku Ikeda

#18. Never will I sit motionless while directly or indirectly apology is made for the murder of the helpless. In securing any kind ofpeace, the first essential is to guarantee to every man the most elementary of rights: the right to his own life. Murder is not debatable.
-Theodore Roosevelt

R.C. Sproul

#19. Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#20. Do you love this story? If you love it, then you've got to write it.

Gayle Lynds

#21. Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments or anything else, can justly take from the individual.

Auberon Herbert

#22. How you feel after watching something indicates not what you watched but where you are at.

A.D. Posey

#23. He had the cheerful demeanor of someone who has been beaten about the face all night with a sock full of porridge - only

William Ritter

#24. The Holy Apostle John the Theologian says that the commandments of God are not difficult, but easy (I John, 5:3). But they are only easy because of love, while they are all difficult if there is no love.

Silouan The Athonite

#25. Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

Caleb Cushing

#26. Respect for human rights requires transparent and accountable institutions and governance as well as the effective participation of all individuals and civil society, who are an essential part of realizing social and people-centred sustainable development.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#27. Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.

Francis Hutcheson

#28. In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

James Madison

#29. I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

Cybill Shepherd

#30. The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty ... a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

Alexander Hamilton

#31. ... he stood behind her, tall and pale, like the ghost of his former self ...

Louisa May Alcott

#32. Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

Andrew Simms

#33. Life is the literary result of my passionate love affair between self and the universe...

Curtis R. Smith

#34. It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#35. In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

Charles Edward Merriam