Federica Montseny Quotes

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

Duties and rights are reciprocal

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties.

Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

There is no entitlement without a duty.

A decent society is not based on rights. It is based on duty. Our duty to one another. To all should be given opportunity; from all responsibility demanded.

Freedom requires civil responsibility.

it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

The right to private property is inconceivable without responsibilities to the common good.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise.

If you accept the privilege of public service, you had better understand the responsibilities of public service.