“The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of political and civil rights... Nothing, however, is as ill-founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.” HumansIdeasLawPoliticalNaturalRaceRightsCenturyMembersEnlightenmentIllCivil RightsHuman RaceAssertionNatural Law Book:Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist
“My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one is that I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights of people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayHumansMeanInspirationLife IsStuffAnimalNumbersRaceRightsMankindHuman RaceAnimal RightsSustenanceTsunamiParishBbq Author:Ted Nugent
“Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. Do not talk to him about the interests and rights of the human race; that little private business of his for the moment absorbs all his thoughts, and he hopes that public disturbances can be put off to some other time.” HumansLittlesMomentsIndividualInterestRaceRightsPlansPeriodsComfortIncreaseSelfishnessHuman RaceDisturbance Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.” HumansReasonChurchRaceLibertyRightsLipsHuman RaceThreatenedShipwreckInalienable Rights Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.” MenWantNeedsHumansWarHumanitySocialSexNaturalRaceHalfWonderRightsCrimeOffersEqualDiseaseUniversalPrivilegeVicesLustTyrannyOppressionHuman RaceOutcomesCreedsEqual RightsRestorationFoulHideousEmancipationTreacheryOne HalfAbominationSubjugationRights And Privileges Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin