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Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2003-01-01): - Collections: The American Revolution and Constitution - Thomas Paine Source: Thomas Paine, The Writings of Thomas Paine, Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1894). Vol. 1. [...] On these grounds I rest the matter. And as no offer hath yet been made to refute the doctrine contained in the former editions of this pamphlet, it is a negative proof, that either the doctrine cannot be refuted, or, that the party in favor of it are too numerous to be opposed. WHEREFORE, instead of gazing at each other with suspicious or doubtful curiosity, let each of us hold out to his neighbor the hearty hand of friendship, and unite in drawing a line, which, like an act of oblivion, shall bury in forgetfulness every former dissention. Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct; and let none other be heard among us, than those of a good citizen; an open and resolute friend; and a virtuous supporter of the RIGHTS of MANKIND, and of the FREE AND INDEPENDANT STATES OF AMERICA.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2024-07-31): Thomas Paine was not the only advocate of the rights of man or the only author of a work titled Rights of Man. The working-class radical, Thomas Spence, is among the first, in England, to use the phrase as a title. His 1775 lecture, usually titled The Rights of Man, and his later The Rights of Infants, offer a proto-geoist take on political philosophy mirroring Paine's work Agrarian Justice.[19] Paine's acquaintance Mary Wollstonecraft, whom he met via their common publisher, wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Men as one of the first responses to Burke's attack on Richard Price. Her work was in print in December 1790, and was well reviewed. She extended the arguments in the book for which she is best remembered, the 1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. [...] - ^ a b c d e f g Mark Philp, "Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 accessed 4 July 2012 - ^ George Rudé, Revolutionary Europe: 1783–1815 (1964) p. 183 - ^ Butler 1984, pp. 107–108; Marshall 2008, p. 195; Thomas 2019, p. 14–15. [...] - ^ T. Paine – introd. ed. anot. M. Philp, Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, Oxford – e.a., 1995, p. xviii.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2013-07-18): Thomas Paine was a pamphleteer, controversialist and international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was a central text behind the call for American independence from Britain; his Rights of Man (1791–2) was the most widely read pamphlet in the movement for reform in Britain in the 1790s and for the opening decades of the nineteenth century; he was active in the French Revolution and was a member of the French National Convention between 1792 and 1795; he is seen by many as a key figure in the emergence of claims for the state’s responsibilities for welfare and educational provision, and his Age of Reason provided a popular deist text that remained influential throughout the 19th century. In his own lifetime, and subsequently, he has been extensively vilified and often dismissed. Yet many of his ideas still command wide interest and enthusiasm in readers throughout the world. [...] - James, J. G., 1988, ‘Thomas Paine’s iron bridge work, 1785–1803’, Newcomen Society Transactions, 57: 189–221 - Kates, G., 1989, ‘From liberalism to radicalism: Tom Paine’s Rights of man’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 50: 569–87. [...] - Lamb, R., 2015, Thomas Paine and the Idea of Human Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2016-06-27): A first problem in this regard is the lack of detail concerning Paine’s attempt to justify the existence of human rights, and their priority to duties generally and to duties to collective goods particularly. Lamb repeatedly claims that both human rights and their priority over other concerns (such as virtue, which Paine happily embraced) flow from human equality. Yet it is unclear why they do so. All humans could be equal in their possession of no rights, or in the priority of their duties to their rights, and indeed it was much more common to reach both those conclusions within egalitarian traditions before (indeed during) the eighteenth century. Lamb proceeds immediately to the important fact that Paine deduced the necessity of consent to government from the existence and priority of individual rights, and — though he briefly flirts with assigning to Paine an interest-based approach to basic entitlements — returns only late in the book to the fact that Paine’s justification of them in the first place was essentially theistic (and not very theologically sophisticated for that matter).
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2021-12-24): I want to talk about Thomas Paine. You’re one of the foremost Thomas Paine experts in the country. You’ve written about him extensively. He’s in this new book. And one of the arguments that you make in the piece on Thomas Paine and in the new book is that we need to read Paine and reclaim Paine. And it is absolutely true that, of the Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine is the least discussed, despite being probably the single most influential—or at least a man without whom I think it’s pretty clear the American Revolution would not have happened. People who discover Paine always all go through this wonderful revelation, where you realize that this person without whom the country would not exist, was so bitingly critical of religions, such a strong defender of democracy, was against slavery. He lacked all of the vices that make so many of the other Founding Fathers such an embarrassment and so difficult to take true pride in—because whatever their accomplishments, it’s very difficult to celebrate anyone who owned human beings. But Thomas Paine is a very different story. And because Thomas Paine is someone you could be proud of, who stood up on principle, there was a deliberate effort to suppress and forget Thomas Paine’s contribution.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2021-07-07): Such men as Socrates, Confucius, Voltaire, Emerson, Thomas Paine, and Abraham Lincoln. [...] Is that true or false? [...] The fact that human beings are given complete control over nothing save the power to think their own thoughts is laden with significance.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2019-01-01): Thomas Paine "…the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist." "Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." Franklin D. Roosevelt "The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind – men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others -- men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves." Margaret Thatcher "All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual." E.B. White "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time." John F. Kennedy "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2020-09-02): Even the Magna Carta, Thomas Paine, all of these, John Locke and so on. Even the reformation, as a matter of fact. [...] That same argument is being on this side of the Atlantic used increasingly. And I confronted it pastorally in the last year by people who say, "If deafness could be cured or blindness could be cured, that would be the genocide of deaf people and blind people."
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2013-03-07): There are two competing views on natural law. The first is that laws or rights are given to us by a divine being. The second is that we have rights because we’re human. [...] Human rights — natural law — are discoverable by reason. This is most certainly not a divine idea of natural law. Jefferson also said in 1774 that "a free people claim their rights" — they are "not a gift of the chief magistrate." I think that would also include they are not a gift from God. People have to assert those rights. [...] Edmund Burke wrote: "In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole." In Common Sense, Thomas Paine wrote about the importance of "securing freedom and property to all men, and above all things, the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience."
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2022-02-03): MDH: Yeah, well, first of all, it’s a factual claim about a historical matter, and I think we should get our historical facts right. So scholar after scholar, popular writer after popular writer has made claims to the effect that many of the founders were deists, most of the founders were deists. And so just simply out of a concern to get our history right, I explore these claims. I look at the evidence that’s presented, and what you find is you have evidence of maybe three or four elite founders that clearly depart from orthodox Christianity, and yet these founders routinely talk about God interfering in the affairs of men and nations. As well, you have claims made about other elite Founders, like an Alexander Hamilton, a George Washington, a James Madison, claims that these Founders are deist as well. And yet, in their cases, there is not even evidence that they depart from orthodox Christianity, and there certainly isn’t any evidence that they embraced deism. And so just as a matter of getting our history correct, I think it is important to recognize that there’s virtually no evidence. I would say probably the only clear deists in the American founding are Ethan Allen and Thomas Paine, and Thomas Paine, as you know, is from England. So you kind of have one homegrown American deist.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2016-10-26): This post is also available in: Français Español Warning: this post contains ideas that some people may find irritatingly optimistic, as well as some big, long-term ideas that some may find ludicrous. Please set your mind to "open" before reading further 🙂 [...] Now, from the viewpoint of the notoriously tricky field of population ethics, there’s a lot of stuff to say here. Apart from the consequences for other species and the environment, we could talk about whether the universe in general is a worse or a better place with humans gone. If there is, on average, more value than disvalue in humans’ lives, it might seem that the net result is negative. But if there’s more misery than happiness, this could be good. We could also think about the value of future people being born. They will obviously not be born if we let humanity go extinct. I won’t go into this minefield here, because I do not have strong opinions about these issues, because I can’t seem to wrap my head around them, and mainly because here I want to touch on some other factors.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2022-08-23): Attorney Marc J. Victor "I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense." Thomas Paine "No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms." Thomas Jefferson [...] I cherish lots of my rights for which I can’t demonstrate any need. I don’t need the right to say highly offensive things to another person. Although I generally don’t try to offend other people, I cherish my right to do so. I also cherish, and would aggressively defend, your right to say highly offensive things to me. Defending the rights of people to say things most people agree with is entirely unimpressive. Liberty must always be defended at the edge. [...] The founders of our nation believed people must always preserve their right to resistance and revolution against their own government.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2000-01-01): Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense," -his famous book filled with hopes and dreams for an equalitarian society right in the middle of a revolution. [...] "And the reason is quite simple. Despite our talk about rugged individualism, man is and ever shall be a social animal. He cannot provide for his physical, material and moral development in isolation. Of necessity, he has to associate with others like himself. [...] One eloquent commentator recently said this: "Genuine democracy in any valid Christian sense or truly American tradition does not cultivate the pretense that all men are created equal in every respect. Democracy calls upon us to promote equal opportunity, equal justice, and a recognition of those essential equalities which flow from essential human personality..."
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Rights of Man by Thomas Paine [...] Affectionate Friend, London, Feb. 9, 1792 Thomas Paine [...] Thomas Paine London, Feb. 9, 1792
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2020-07-24): So, what does this mean for your everyday life? [...] I think (and hope) that at a basic level, most people know right from wrong. They know that they should be mindful and considerate of others. Not to purposefully hurt their feelings, destroy their property, waste their time, speak badly of them, etc. [...] Treating everyone you encounter with respect will enhance the positive relationships in your life and minimize the negative ones. Those times when you’re forced to be around colleagues or "friends of friends" who you disagree with will be all the easier for it.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2019-05-28): Listen to a narrated version of this essay: [...] But you know that’s not true. I know it, too; otherwise I would never have been invited to talk to you, and I’m even more convinced of it now that I’ve spent a few days on campus. To quote Colonel Scott Krawczyk, your course director, in a lecture he gave last year to English 102: From the very earliest days of this country, the model for our officers, which was built on the model of the citizenry and reflective of democratic ideals, was to be different. They were to be possessed of a democratic spirit marked by independent judgment, the freedom to measure action and to express disagreement, and the crucial responsibility never to tolerate tyranny.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2019-06-15): This can be infuriating to their parents, from whom young adults are freer than ever to estrange themselves – adding injury to insult. (Yes, that is what I meant to say.) [...] Ralph Waldo Emerson came at it from the angle of being the change you wish to see in the relationship. He said, "Men are respectable only as they respect." He was referring to the Golden Rule of treating others the way you would have them treat you. This goes beyond respect to dignity, understanding, the benefit of the doubt, etc.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2017-03-29): Let us consider the so-called biblical evidence first. Despite the claims of Christian apologists, there is absolutely nothing in the Old Testament (OT) that is of relevance to our question, apart from the possible fact that some prophets may have thought that an "anointed one" (a rescuer king or priest) would once again assume the leadership of the Jewish world. All of the many examples of OT "predictions" of Jesus are so silly that one need only look them up to see their irrelevance. Thomas Paine, the great heretic of the American Revolution, did just that, and he demonstrated their irrelevance in his book An Examination of the Prophecies, which he intended to be Part III of The Age of Reason.Note B [...] - A profusely annotated paperback edition of Paine’s book is available from American Atheist Press for twelve dollars. (Order No. 5575, click here) [back] [...] - J. P. Migne, Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Græca, Tomus CIII. Photius Constantinopolitanus Patriarcha, Garnier Fratres, Paris, 1900, Cod. 47, 76, and 238. [back]
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2015-06-28): These migrants included religious dissenters who struck out on their own and founded new faiths, devising theological arguments to demonstrate the righteousness of their doing so. Their arguments would later be adopted for secular purposes as they were used, barely altered, to support the right to freedom of thought and speech, and were embraced widely by many independent-minded communities. They were also open to new ideas, and were often more ready to accept innovative moral and political theories of the Enlightenment which emphasized individual rights and self-sovereignty over traditional authoritarian and elitist social systems than were their European counterparts, and more ready and able to implement them. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and The Rights of Man, the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Bill of Rights are all essentially Enlightenment documents, embodying that intellectual movement’s conception of human nature and of the just society founded upon individual human rights.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2022-09-30): Quotes of the Week: Our God-Given Rights "I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit." ― Theodore Roosevelt "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." ― Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." ― Thomas Paine "This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself." ― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." ― John Milton , Areopagitica
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "Two things inspire me to awe – the starry heavens above and the moral universe within." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-25)
Evidence (2019-06-25): There is no evidence that this expression originated with Einstein.
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "Two things inspire me to awe – the starry heavens above and the moral universe within." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-25)
Evidence (2010-05-04): Did Einstein really say that? [...] As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing. [...] I spent one afternoon with Albert Einstein: unpretentiousness, warmth, some false political predictions. I soon lost my self-consciousness, a rare treat for me at that time. I still love to quote a statement of his: "Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe."
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "Two things inspire me to awe – the starry heavens above and the moral universe within." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-25)
Evidence (2023-03-14): Near the end of his life, Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel — a position he turned down, citing a lack of experience and people skills. He passed away a few years later in 1955 of heart failure. He left behind a lifetime worth of remarkable scientific contributions and social commentary that lives on today. Einstein is perhaps the most quoted scientist of all time, with remarks about life, morality and social justice being among the most famous Einstein quotes — something he didn't exactly intend for. In 1953 he quipped: "In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell." Nevertheless, the words he left behind may be the best way to go inside the mind of the legend. Here is a collection of Einstein quotes — from inspiring to thought-provoking — that offer a glimpse into how he saw the world and his work.
Claim: Claims that Albert Einstein once said, "Two things inspire me to awe – the starry heavens above and the moral universe within." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-25)
Evidence (2024-02-20): Albert Einstein once said that there are only two things that might be infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And, he confessed, he wasn't sure about the universe. When we hear that, we chuckle. Or at least we smile. We do not take offense. The reason is that the name "Einstein" conjures an image of a warm-hearted, avuncular sage of an earlier era. We see the good-natured, wild-haired scientific genius whose iconic portraits—riding a bike, sticking out his tongue, staring at us with those penetrating eyes—are emblazoned in our collective cultural memory. Einstein has come to symbolize the purity and power of intellectual exploration. [...] Some have gone further, portraying Einstein as the central inspiration for the avant-garde movement of the 20th century, the scientific wellspring that necessitated a cultural rethink. It's romantic to believe that nature's truths set off a tidal wave that swept away the dusty vestiges of an entrenched culture. But I've never seen convincing evidence pinning these upheavals to Einstein's science. A widespread misinterpretation of relativity—that it eliminated objective truth—is responsible for many unjustified invocations of Einstein's theories in the realm of culture. Curiously, Einstein himself had conventional tastes: he preferred Bach and Mozart to modern composers and refused a gift of new Bauhaus furniture in favor of the well-worn traditional decor he already owned.