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«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.»
Author: Larry Flynt
(Publisher)
| About:
Right,
Rules
| Keywords:
Considering, individual rights, majority rule, right to vote, supper, voting, wolves
«It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
infuriate, infuriates, infuriating
«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.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Criticism,
Mankind,
Right,
Self-respect,
Sin
| Keywords:
demean, demeaning, demeans, human being, Human eye, human right, matters, No self, self-respecting, self respect, sin, undermine, undermined, undermines, undermining
«In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Ethics,
Law and lawyers,
Right
| Keywords:
ethics, guilty, He Is Guilty, in-law, violates, violating
«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).»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Right,
Voting
| Keywords:
individual rights, majorities, minorities, minority, oppression, precisely, protect, right to vote, smallest, subject to, the smallest, vote
«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.»
Author: Calvin Coolidge
(President)
| About:
Mankind,
Right
| Keywords:
declaration, duly, natural rights, promulgate, promulgated
«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»
«In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country»
«Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Right
| Keywords:
conduct, controls, Laws, lesser
«I disapprove of what you say, but I defend to the death your right to say it.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
defend, disapprove, disapproves, disapproving, Say It
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