Adam Weishaupt Quotes

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties.

We need a proper balance between rights and responsibilities in our laws.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

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

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

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

There is no entitlement without a duty.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

A right is a responsibility in reverse.

There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

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.

It is right to give every man his due.

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.