
As quoted in Asadollah Alam (1991), The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77, page 262
Attributed
Source: 1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
As quoted in Asadollah Alam (1991), The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77, page 262
Attributed
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 389.
“My mother and father raised but one question: Is it right, is it duty?”
As quoted in The Rich man and the Kingdom : John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the Protestant establishment (1995) by Albert F. Schenkel, p. 13
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 31.
Context: I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times mysteriously in each of these books; thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right.
“Rights presuppose duties, if they are not to become mere licence”
2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)
“My favorite wine is usually whatever is right in front of me.”
What Would Jack Do?
“Property has its duties as well as its rights.”
Letter to the Landlords of Tipperary, May 22, 1838. See also Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, book ii. chapter xi.