Quote of the day 22nd December 2013

“Human rights are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others?

"A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in ...

"A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.”
 
( Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals )

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