Top 100 Have A Right Quotes
#1. Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain.
John Steinbeck
#2. The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.
Mark R. Levin
#3. Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway ... Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards.
Michelle Obama
#4. This is what America's all about, nobody's being hurt they have a right to express themselves, I watched all the television I could on Miami-Dade and I didn't see anybody being shoved around.
Bob Dole
#5. As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#6. Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
Edward Abbey
#7. I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Samuel Johnson
#8. Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.
Stanley Nelson Jr.
#9. People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.
Layne Staley
#10. [I]f you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care ... My staff and technicians provide it ... If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.
Rand Paul
#11. Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.
Gary Bauer
#12. I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.
Nancy Werlin
#13. Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.
Tim Wise
#14. When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit.
Harold Ramis
#15. Grace is to be let into a place that you don't have a right to be.
Timothy Keller
#16. We have a blood bought covenant with God that says we are His and He is ours. We are loved, and have a right to call to Him, call on Him and have His presence in our lives through worship, bible study and prayer - p. 14
Wanda L. Scott
#17. But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
Kate Adie
#18. I repeat that superior races have a right [to establish colonies], because they have a duty. They have the duty to civilize inferior races.
Jules Ferry
#19. I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.
Peter O'Toole
#20. Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on!' she cried.
Kurt Vonnegut
#21. When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
Tavi Gevinson
#22. You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Anais Nin
#23. Showing the skills more of a high-school debater than a barrister, Brandis blustered in the Senate that 'people do have a right to be bigots'.
Peter Van Onselen
#24. Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.
Jeb Hensarling
#25. As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
James Madison
#26. All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.
Al Sharpton
#27. People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay more taxes than they do - so even if I don't vote, I still have the right to speak out.
Lupe Fiasco
#28. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. The most important thing for people to understand is that the basic rule that people have a right to send information over the Internet - even when they are using a wireless device - is part of the framework.
Julius Genachowski
#31. As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.
Andrew Weil
#32. I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights.
Pat Robertson
#33. Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
James K. Polk
#34. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself ... Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
Sylvia Plath
#35. When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.
Adoniram Judson
#36. To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me
the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.
Charlotte Bronte
#37. The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.
Henry George
#38. Why don't you have a right to say you are Jesus? And why isn't the proper response to that "congratulations"?
Thomas Szasz
#40. The people have a right supreme
To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,
Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.
Successionm for the general good design'd,
In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.
John Dryden
#41. There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
Waylon Jennings
#42. Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
Miroslav Volf
#43. I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.
Sparky Anderson
#44. We don't have a right to ask whether we're going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what's the right thing to do? What does this earth require of us if we want to continue to live on it?
Wendell Berry
#45. Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.
Juan Somavia
#46. Women have a right, I believe, to do whatever they want as long as they don't break the law.
Bill O'Reilly
#47. I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#48. Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.
Romola Garai
#49. People have a right to be able to bear arms.
Mitt Romney
#51. Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.
Nick Cave
#52. People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Florence King
#53. As women, do we have the same rights as men to enjoy sex? How many of us would say yes, we do have a right, we have a equal right to enjoy sex, and if our husbands don't satisfy us, then we have a right to seek satisfaction elsewhere.
Azar Nafisi
#54. Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.
Charles M. Schulz
#55. All women have a right to give birth. We have to protect that right as much as we can.
Haruki Murakami
#56. Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
Alexander Hamilton
#57. Nobody wants to share in your PAINS, but they think they have a right to partake of your GAINS. Task your BRAIN too and see if it's that easy to enjoy RAIN in dry season.
Bayode Ojo
#58. And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge ...
John Adams
#59. It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.
Alan Ladd
#61. Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there's a criticism to be made today, it's that the press isn't doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.
Walter Cronkite
#62. We should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.
Albert Einstein
#63. Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
#64. There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
Bobby Darin
#65. My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them.
Scott Thompson
#66. There is no why. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding.
Cheryl Strayed
#67. People have a right to be the way they are.
Judith Guest
#68. I have a right to kiss her, if she chooses, and you have no right to object! I am not your husband, you needn't be jealous of me!
Emily Bronte
#69. If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away those books and get one which says we are all brothers and sisters under God and we too have a right to live.
Roy Sesana
#70. But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
Al Franken
#71. In America you have the right to worship any way you choose. That's why virtually every faith and every denomination on Earth has a presence in our land. You have a right to not believe in God at all.
Marco Rubio
#72. We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner ... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.
George H. W. Bush
#73. I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.
Joe Biden
#74. If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
Thomas Sowell
#75. You aren't a therapist. Walk away from the soul suckers. You have a right to pursue happiness and an equal right to run as fast as you can from the people who would deny it. Success
Scott Adams
#76. No one is attacking Islam, as such. We accept that there is a large French-born Islamic population in France who have a right to be here. The FN is not a racist or Islamophobic party.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
#77. We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.
Amartya Sen
#78. If someone thinks homosexuality is immoral, they have a right to believe that.
Marianne Williamson
#79. Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
Thomas Jefferson
#80. The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.
Darrell Issa
#81. How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
Alexander Pope
#83. We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly ... when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.
Leslie Feinberg
#84. Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
Pat Buchanan
#85. Some well-to-do parents may say, "I have a right to have as many children as I want because I can take care of them." That may be so, but can the Earth take care of them?
Sharon Gannon
#86. In any matter where we have questions, we have a right to ask the Holy Spirit to lead us and to expect His gentle guiding.
Curtis Hutson
#87. We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
#88. Lovers have a right to betray you ... friends don't.
Judy Holliday
#89. People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions.
Michelle Obama
#90. People have a right to be a Democrat. People have a right to be wrong. I know they're the same thing.
Marco Rubio
#91. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.
Cheryl Strayed
#92. I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.
Lynn Redgrave
#93. Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
Jean Baudrillard
#94. The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed.
Beverly Engel
#95. Bhagavad-Gita tells us we have a right only to our labor, not to the fruits of our labor.
Steven Pressfield
#96. I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.
Al Franken
#97. But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.
Ted Cruz
#98. into Narnia at the very beginning. You know that every traitor belongs to me as my lawful prey and that for every treachery I have a right to a kill." "Oh," said Mr. Beaver. "So
C.S. Lewis
#99. The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook. And this is just as true for 'public personalities' as it is for the average person. After all, even people in the public eye have a right to a private life.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#100. Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.
John Boyle O'Reilly
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