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| Den viktigaste rättigheten i världen är rätten att ha fel. | William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) |
| Rätt man, på rätt ställe, på rätt tid - kan stjäla en miljoner. | Gregory Nunn |
| Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. | Charles T. Sprading |
| What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others. | Eileen Caddy |
| When a family is involved in a human rights movement, as in the Mexican- American family, there is little room for a woman's liberation movement alone | Enriqueta Longauex-Vasquez |
| The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them | Jason Laumark |
| Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. | Larry Flynt (1942-) |
| The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law | Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) |
| The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief | Roger Rosenblatt |
| Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can | Samuel Adams (1722-1803) |
| Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great? | Sam Ervin (1896-1985) |
| If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it. | Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) |
| All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things | Victor Cousin (1792-1867) |
| The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was | Walt West |
| We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all. | William Reece Smith, Jr. |
| The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe | Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) |
| My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. | Charles Simmons |
| We expect them (Salvadoran officials) to work toward the elimination of human rights | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. | Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) |
| Don't get it right, just get it written | James Thurber (1894-1961) |
| The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations. | Kofi Annan (1938-) |
| We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. | Malcolm X (1925-1965) |
| The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. | Potter Stewart (1915-1985) |
| No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. | William Wells Brown |
| The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was | Walt West |
| A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all. | William Reece Smith, Jr. |
| The Constitution does not grant rights, it recognizes them | Jason Laumark |
| We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. | Malcolm X (1925-1965) |
| The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| Right is its own defense. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws. | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| 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 (1751-1836) |
| The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood; but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. | John Wooden (1910-) |
| Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great? | Sam Ervin (1896-1985) |
| A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune | William McFee (1881-1966) |
| Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| And all is right as right can be. | William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) |
| The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. | William Wells Brown |
| There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |