rights

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

—Thomas Jefferson

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights

—Georg Hegel

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

—Thomas Jefferson

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

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nay, if we may openly speak the truth, and as becomes one man to another, neither Pagan nor Mahometan, nor Jew, ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the commonwealth because of his religion.

—John Locke