Joseph Priestley Quotes

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.

Joseph Priestley

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• Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People
  • Rights
  • Unions

• Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Up
  • You
  • Rights

• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Together
  • True

• The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Equal

• In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Eyes
  • Justice
  • Equal

• 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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Real
  • Age
  • Feeling

• We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Society
  • Create
  • Equal

• 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.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Government
  • Equal
  • Judges

• 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.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Stop
  • Equal

• Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Rights
  • Personal
  • Property

• I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • American
  • Rights
  • Citizen

• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Affection

• The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Life
  • Always
  • Rights

• Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Spirit
  • Rights

• The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Up
  • Find
  • Rights

• I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Think
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Think
  • Congress
  • Equal

• “I suppose once you've been accused of being a witch, you're never really safe. People may blame all sorts of accidents and misfortunes on you.”

  

  Hugh Lofting
  • People
  • Blame
  • Safe

• Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Freedom
  • Engine
  • Valve

• What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Reality
  • Story
  • Happened

• My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

  

  Jordan Knight
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Dance

• I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

  

  Maynard Jackson
  • Perfect
  • Mean
  • Democracy

• 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.

  

  Joseph Priestley
  • Rights
  • Equal
  • Importance