Rollo May Quotes

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

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

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for human rights.

The excellence of the West lies not in its accomplishments in the sciences, arts and technology, but rather, these accomplishments are the outgrowth of the West's respect for the human being, the recognition of his individuality, the liberty it has granted him, and the establishment of government in the service of the people—the government belongs to the people, and they do not belong to it. This is a qualitative change, unprecedented in human history

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

We have the right to be idiots.

I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.

I fundamentally believe in freedom and human rights.

It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.

Each of us wants to be free. But if we want to be free, we also need to appreciate that others also desire the same thing.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

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

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

You want your privacy as a human being.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

A man is born free.

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

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.