Quotes I love, from college textbooks.
The following quotes should be taught to every student in the nation around the age of 14.
"ccording to Hobbes, life in the state of nature prior to the formation of government was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Rather than an era of peace and tranquility populated with noble savages, Hobbes envisioned a nightmare of violence where each individual decided only for himself and against all others. In this version of a state of nature, there could be no industry, no crops grown, no security or peace found, and certainly no rights whose claims were equally understood and honored."
"We are either living in an age of sudden awareness where we have evolved and are now aware of a whole new set of rights, or we are confusing what we want with what is somehow our due. The gross multiplication of rights threatens to make the very issue of rights associated with real claims almost meaningless. It appears too easy to move from 'I want X' to 'I have a right to X.' "
- Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice, 3e
Chapter 4: The Nature of Rights in Ethical Discourse
ISBN: 1401861830 Author: Raymond S. Edge, John Randall Groves
copyright © 2006, 1999, 1994 Thomson Delmar Learning, a part of the Thomson Corporation
"ccording to Hobbes, life in the state of nature prior to the formation of government was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Rather than an era of peace and tranquility populated with noble savages, Hobbes envisioned a nightmare of violence where each individual decided only for himself and against all others. In this version of a state of nature, there could be no industry, no crops grown, no security or peace found, and certainly no rights whose claims were equally understood and honored."
"We are either living in an age of sudden awareness where we have evolved and are now aware of a whole new set of rights, or we are confusing what we want with what is somehow our due. The gross multiplication of rights threatens to make the very issue of rights associated with real claims almost meaningless. It appears too easy to move from 'I want X' to 'I have a right to X.' "
- Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice, 3e
Chapter 4: The Nature of Rights in Ethical Discourse
ISBN: 1401861830 Author: Raymond S. Edge, John Randall Groves
copyright © 2006, 1999, 1994 Thomson Delmar Learning, a part of the Thomson Corporation
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