Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui Quotes

Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

There is no entitlement without a duty.

Duties and rights are reciprocal

The true source of rights is duty.

Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Strong rights presume strong responsibilities.

Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter ;, For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.