#2,979

As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive law.
The individual has no more rights than the benefit that can be inferred from another’s duty.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 476

#2,587

It is customary to proclaim rights in order to be able to violate duties.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 418

#1,431

Nothing is more common than to transform a duty that inconveniences us into an “ethical dilemma.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 242

#1,296

When the notion of duty expels that of vocation, society becomes peopled with disfigured souls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 223

#1,190

The tissues of society become cancerous when the duties of some are transformed into the rights of others.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 208

#810

We disfigure duties and pleasures when we ignore the fact that each thing carries with it the criterion which convicts or acquits it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 149

#424

Modern man calls his ambition a duty.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 85