"Right to life" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... were even more of an abolitionist, Squire. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, ought to apply to ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell
... the person.* The most essential of these is the right to life, on which of course all else that can be enjoyed is contingent. This right is invaded, not only by direct violence, but by whatever may impair or endanger health. The corresponding obligation of the individual member of society is to refrain from all acts, employments, ...
— A Manual of Moral Philosophy • Andrew Preston Peabody
... not only include the right of voting for public officers, but that they include that right as pre-eminently the most important of all the privileges and immunities to which the section refers. Among these privileges and immunities may doubtless be classed the right to life and liberty, to the acquisition and enjoyment of property, and to the free pursuit of one's own welfare, so far as such pursuit does not interfere with the rights and welfare of others; but what security has any one for the enjoyment ...
— An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony • Anonymous
... Right of the Stronger.—Natural right is quite a relative idea: the right to life and its conditions. But, as in this world, which is said to be created by a personal and perfect God, things are so amicably arranged that living creatures can only exist by devouring one another, the oldest effective natural right of every living being ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel
... dispose of his spiritual favours as he pleases, and that he has given accordingly different measures of his spirit to different people: but that, in doing this, he does not exclude others from an opportunity of salvation or a right to life. On the other hand, they believe that he is no respecter of persons, only as far as obedience is concerned: that election neither secures of itself good behaviour, nor protects from punishment: that every man who standeth, must take heed lest he fall: that ...
— A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume II (of 3) • Thomas Clarkson |
