Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-03-21 Mar 21, 2013Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. ... Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there are no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only duties based on functions.~ Auguste Comte... we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.~ Adolf HitlerWhat we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.~ Rudolph W. Giuliani Mar 20, 2013For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends.~ AristotleThere is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.~ Michel de MontaigneIf everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.~ Molière Mar 19, 2013The cold, hard facts of magazine publishing mean that those who advertise get editorial coverage.~ Richard ShortwayIt is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.~ Thomas MannTelevision, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium.~ William S. Paley Mar 18, 2013The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.~ Granville HicksEvery attempt to gag the free expression of thought is an unsocial act against society. That is why judges and juries who try to enforce such laws make themselves ridiculous.~ Jay FoxHe [a U.S. Senator] knows he's got to buy time on my radio station, so he's going to lend me an ear. We're keeping them alive back home and that's why the newspaper and radio and TV people are more effective lobbyists.~ Joseph Costello Mar 15, 2013If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds.~ Bill MoyersThe bigger the information media, the less courage and information they allow. Bigness means weakness.~ Eric SevareidNothing is given so profusely as advice.~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print