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"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
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"Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man."
"But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights."
"Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations."
"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more."
"The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them."
"I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect."
"Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever."
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"More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic."
"Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."
"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."
"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."
"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
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