Carl Sagan Quotes, Rights Quotes, Mind Quotes

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

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We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.

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There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

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Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

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[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

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Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

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I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

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Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

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Putting the World to Rights

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Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.

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I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

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Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right.

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In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

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In this world him who does not abandon himself the Almighty will not desert. Him who helps himself will the Almighty always also help; He will show him the way by which he can gain his rights, his freedom, and therefore his future.

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In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

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