Natural Right Quotes

“Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will attend any attempt in a commonwealth to force men to speak only as prescribed by the sovereign despite their different and opposing opinions.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise

“When guns came into existence, so too did the natural right to a fair and reasonable defense against them.”
― Rick Delmonico, The Philosophy of Fractals

“Above all, knowledge of the indefinitely large variety of notions of right and wrong is so far from being incompatible with the idea of natural right that is the essential condition for the emergence of that idea: realization of the variety of notions of right is the incentive for the quest for natural right.”
― Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History