#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

#2,743

Modern man defends nothing energetically except his right to debauchery.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 440

#2,587

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 418

#2,314

To corrupt the individual it suffices to teach him to call his personal desires rights and the rights of others abuses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 375

#2,219

Either man has rights, or the people is sovereign.
The simultaneous assertion of two mutually exclusive theses is what people have called liberalism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 360

#2,140

Appetites, greed, passions, do not threaten man’s existence so long as they do not proclaim themselves rights of man, as long as they are not ferments of divinity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 349

#2,090

Modernism ingeniously finds a way not to present its theology directly, but rather through profane notions that imply it.
It avoids announcing to man his divinity, but proposes goals that only a god could reach, or rather proclaims that the essence of man has rights which assume he is divine.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 338

#2,064

When events mistreat him, the pessimist invokes rights.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 334

#1,976

Liberalism proclaims the right of the individual to degrade oneself, provided one’s degradation does not impede the degradation of one’s neighbor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 322

#1,974

Liberty is the right to be different; equality is a ban on being different.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 321

#1,607

“Social justice” is the term used to claim anything to which we do not have a right.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 267

#1,470

Modern liberalism no longer defends any of the “rights of man” except the right to consume.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 248

#1,329

Each day we demand more from society so that we can demand less from ourselves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 228

#1,322

Universal suffrage in the end does not recognize any of the individual’s rights except the “right” to be alternately oppressor or oppressed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 227

#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

#1,153

We can beg for mercy.
But with what right do we demand justice?

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 203

#1,061

The individual declares himself a member of some collective entity, with the aim of demanding in its name what he is ashamed to claim in his own name.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 189

#795

“The dignity of man,” “the greatness of man,” “the rights of man,” etc.: a verbal hemorrhage which the simple sight of our face in the morning as we shave should staunch.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 143

#164

Man would not feel so unfortunate if it were enough for him to desire without pretending to have a right to what he desires.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 47