Immanuel Kant Quotes

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.

You want your privacy as a human being.

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Every human being, including those who belong to the enemy, have rights.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

The right to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the most valued by civilized men.

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.

I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.

You either respect people's liberties, or you don't.

The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.

Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.

And every human being is precious.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

A man is born free.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.