Negative Rights

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or rights:

“The negative always wins at last, but I like it none the better for that.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man’s appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)