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I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government. ”
Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity. ”
The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war. ”
Therefore, states are equal in natural rights. ”
Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another. ”
While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion - namely, that I myself could not think at all. ”
God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ”
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men. ”
How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude! ”
The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road. ”