Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.
Pope Benedict XVI
The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.
Michael Schumacher
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.
I've always hated oppression.
Rodrigo Duterte
All oppression creates a state of war.
Simone de Beauvoir
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Desiderius Erasmus
One writes fables in periods of oppression.
Italo Calvino
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
White America is in the minority.
Malcolm X
The minority yields to the majority!
Deng Xiaoping
No minority should climb all over the majority.
Lech Walesa
The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.
The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
Form follows function.
Louis Sullivan
Dynamism is a function of change.
Hillary Clinton
America should function as a Christian nation.
Randall Terry
Function alone does not make clothing appealing.
Issey Miyake
Society can't function without shared prosperity.
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
One and God make a majority.
Frederick Douglass
One with the law is a majority.
Calvin Coolidge
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips
The majority of my blood is Asian.
Tiger Woods
One man with courage is a majority.
The minority yields to the majority!
As for our majority... one is enough.
I don't vote.
David Petraeus
I don't vote.
Jason Pierre-Paul
Every vote matters.
Mike D
I'm glad I can't vote.
Kevin Gates
I vote and I do jury duty.
I wouldn't vote for Obama.
I can't tell anyone to vote.
Gay rights are human rights.
Hillary Clinton
I am passionate about human rights.
Hannah Simone
Rights are in the power of the people.
Ken Starr
I don't believe gun owners have rights.
Sarah Brady
Voting rights are constitutional rights.
Iran has a dismal record on human rights.
I want to regain my First Amendment rights.
Death is not my best subject.
Judd Nelson
Math - it's not my best subject.
Heather O'Rourke
I was never my favourite subject.
Lauren Bacall
The style depends on the subject.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
A woman is subject matter enough.
Betrayal... is my favorite subject.
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
London style is individual.
Mary Quant
I am definitely an individual.
Leona Lewis
I see bodies as individual things.
Joni Mitchell
You need to be your own individual.
Two Chainz
I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.
Elon Musk is a remarkable individual.
I'm an individual, and I have opinions.
The Earth needs rebels!
David Icke
I love all of the Earth.
Robert Ballard
The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
Paris Hilton
We are a plague on the Earth.
Our time on Earth is so random.
There's no sex in Middle Earth.
I don't get political.
Betty White
I'm a political junkie.
Rob Lowe
I'm not a political guy.
William H. McRaven
I'm not a political comic.
Abbi Jacobson
I'm not a political pundit.
All literature is political.
I'm a political conservative.
I work in public.
Martin Freeman
The public makes a hit.
Dee Wallace
The public's not stupid.
Rita Ora
The public is never wrong.
Adolph Zukor
The public is always good.
My art became very public.
The public are not stupid.
Did I do all right?
Ella Fitzgerald
Just do what feels right.
Juliana Hatfield
Right is its own defense.
Bertolt Brecht
Nothing is sacred, right?
Mia Kirshner
Life should be art, right?
I have to do what's right.
My right hand is a monster.