Thomas Hobbes Quotes

We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either justice or right.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

Protections in law should be protections in fact.

In England, justice is open to all, like the Ritz hotel.

This, then, is first what I will: that every man be worthy of folk-right, as well poor as rich; and that righteous dooms be judged to him;

The end must justify the means.

The tensions between order and liberty, between opportunity and social justice will always be there, but that’s freedom.

The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one? Is no concession proper but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant?

It is a maxim of our municipal law, and, I believe, of universal law, that he who permits the end, permits of course the means, without which the end cannot be effected

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory. The right to play on any playing field? You have earned it. The right to study in any school? You have earned it. The right to hold a job? You have earned it. The right to anyone's neighbor? You have earned it.

It is right to be forward in the defense of the poor; no system that is not just as between rich and poor can hope to survive.

As a human being, I do feel like it's my right to be able to stand up for and speak on whatever I want.

The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.

Access to justice is a fundamental part of a properly functioning democracy.

I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.

I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

I went to public school on Long Island, and it seemed every year we were being taught that you had a right to a fair trial and a right to confront your accuser.

I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.

All men are created equal.

No group of our citizens can be denied the right to participate in the opportunities of first-class citizenship.

Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America.

It doesn't matter if you are a man or woman; you need to stand up for yourself. If you have been abused, you deserve justice.

The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.

The First Amendment does not give you the right to commit a crime.

India is the biggest democracy. We have the right to say what we want to say, and people have the right to protest.