Social and Cultural Rights

Famous quotes containing the words social, cultural and/or rights:

    “A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be said to have arrived at self-possession.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.”
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    “Good breeding ... differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)