Adam Ferguson Quotes
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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We need to mark the difference between what another may offer, threaten, or refuse while respecting my liberty and what offers, threats, and refusals violate it. It is the line between my rights and the rights of another. Marking that line is liberty’s most difficult intellectual task.
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But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
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Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.
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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
