Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.
A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.