Top 1200 Rights And Duties Quotes & Sayings

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.

It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.

There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you were born, what your race or creed or color is. You have rights. Everybody's got rights.

The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.

Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

As employees, we are all given specific duties and carrying out these duties provides us with a great sense of responsibility.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

At the end of the day, these are issues that need to be discussed: femicides, among other things - immigrant rights, women's' rights, indigenous people's rights, animal rights, Mother Earth's rights. If we don't talk about these topics, then we have no place in democracy. It won't exist. Democracy isn't just voting; it's relegating your rights.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

Gays have rights, lesbians have rights, men have rights, women have rights, even animals have rights. How many of us have to die before the community recognizes that we are not expendable?

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.

If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

In the U.S., those requesting a Green Card must take an oath that they will fulfill the rights and duties of citizenship.

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.

You know I have duties??we both have duties??before which feeling must be sacrificed.

Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't have the vote, apparently; he just has his duties.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

Unfortunately, I have witnessed millions of children suffering from the deprivation of basic rights such as the rights to education, the rights to health and the rights to play.

The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those-who-have.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.

Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human rights – I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female. It is my solemn conviction, that, until this principle of equality is recognised and embodied in practice, the Church can do nothing effectual for the permanent reformation of the world.

My own sense as an American is that we have begun to experience the disadvantages of framing virtually all moral issues in terms of individual rights. American history has consisted of swings back and forth between rights talk on the one hand and talk of duties, responsibilities, and the common good on the other hand. Recent decades have seen a big swing toward rights, and conceived in very individualistic terms, which hasn't always been the case even with rights.

All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!

I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles; and by the recognition by all citizens that they have duties as well as rights, and that such rights cannot be enjoyed save in a society where law is respected and due process is observed.

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties.

Our innate, built-in human value is the reason we have binding duties or obligations towards each other that we don't have towards any other kind of thing. It's also the reason we have unalienable human rights. If man's God-given, special value falls, then unalienable human rights fall, too.

Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.

Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.

If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.

In addition to protecting the rights of every citizen of our country, our Constitution makes the citizens of the country mindful of their duties.

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

Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are morally virtuous or vicious.