George Jellinek Quotes
The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.
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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'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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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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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
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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.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
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I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.
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The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.
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All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.
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Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
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The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.
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All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.
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The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.
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Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
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You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5.
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Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
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The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.
