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"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."
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"I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected."
"However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights."
"The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum."
""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
"Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority."
"I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights."
"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
"These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever."
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"A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation."
"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."
"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."
"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."
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