Negative Rights

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or rights:

    The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short- cut answer.
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    Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)