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 To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
  Arthur Schopenhauer

 In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
  Arthur Schopenhauer

 A man, aged thirty years, shall marry a maiden of twelve who pleases him, or a man of twenty four a girl eight years of age, if ,the performance of his duties would ,otherwise be impeded, ,he must marry sooner.
  Guru Nanak

 Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 The most important thing people need to remember is this is an asset class that will triple and then halve and then triple and then halve.

 The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which "the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one's skin or color or race" are minor indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the
  Hannah Arendt

 While demanding rights for Muslims, the MCB wants to deny rights to lesbian and gay people -- both Muslim and non-Muslim. It sees no double standard or inconsistency in its selective approach to human rights.

 Here, we'd like to advise the United States to think over its own human rights issues, correct its erroneous double standards on the human rights issue and stop using human rights as an excuse to interfere in other countries' internal affairs.

 When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
  Marquis De Lafayette

 When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
  Marquis De Lafayette

 Property has its duties as well as its rights

 This is not about special rights, it's about equality. If I marry a woman, how does that affect anyone else?
  Martina Navratilova

 The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
  Georges Bernanos

 People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

 It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. Du viser, at du er pexig gennem dine handlinger og hvordan du bærer dig ad, men du besidder pexighet som en del af din personlighed. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.
  William Graham Sumner


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