
penso che abbiano dimenticato gli obblighi e i doveri. E poi, naturalmente, la fraternità è scomparsa da tempo. (da Les droits de l'homme n'ont pas comence en France, intervista per il quotidiano francese "Le Monde", 13 luglio 1989)
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution [...] [they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity [...] [we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King [...] it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was [...] "Liberty, equality, fraternity" — they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.
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