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| Gunaraj |
Posted
on 18-Sep-03 09:52 PM
I meant to say "if you know the name of the person ......."
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| Gunaraj |
Posted
on 18-Sep-03 09:52 PM
Please reply if you know the person who said the following quote.
"Your rights to stretch your arm ends exactly where your friend's nose begins"...
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| Prajesh |
Posted
on 19-Sep-03 07:38 AM
Guna Ji,
Last I read this quote was in an article dedicated to BP Koirala, but I am not sure who said this.
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| Trikal |
Posted
on 19-Sep-03 03:53 PM
Gunaraj ji,
It is really wonderful quote. It is probably written in Manusmriti..... You can find this type of great quotes in Manusmriti.
Trikal.....
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| Gunaraj |
Posted
on 19-Sep-03 05:37 PM
Prajeshji and Trikalji
Thank you for your efforts to find the solution. As far as I know that was said by someone working in the theory of "Property Rights". I needed to quote that person in my note. It's not late yet, if other Sajhaities come up with the solution. I really like this quote hamro "Basudhaiva Kutumbakam" bhane jastai.
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| Gokul |
Posted
on 19-Sep-03 05:49 PM
Gunaji,
This quotation is by Herbert Spencer, a British sociologist and philosopher.
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| Gunaraj |
Posted
on 19-Sep-03 09:04 PM
Thank you very much Gokulji.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 20-Sep-03 12:12 AM
Herbert Spencer, really?
Don't know.
For some reason, I would have attributed it to one of those quotable American Judges: Felix Frankfurter, or Louis Brandeis or Learned Hand or even Hugo Black.
I myself encountered a similar quote in one of law professor Alan Dersowitz's memoirs
a few years ago.
Gunaraj, you might to validate Gokul-ji's information by asking a reference librarian at a law school.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| Gokul |
Posted
on 20-Sep-03 05:59 AM
I think Spencer said it in his discussion of property rights but I may be wrong. It is always a good idea to verify things.
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| Garibjanata |
Posted
on 20-Sep-03 12:37 PM
Principle of Equal Freedom
First principle is to maximize individual freedom consistent with similar freedoms for all. This was by Herbert Spencer, a good way to describe this ethic is by comparing it to the quote, "Your right to stretch your arm ends at the point someone else's face begins." Or you have the right to free speech, but you will be liable if you yell "Fire" in a crowded theater.
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| Gunaraj |
Posted
on 20-Sep-03 01:11 PM
I did googling and found the following:
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins"
- Oliver Wendell Homes.
Herbert Spencer's quote, as Garabjanta has written above seems more useful for me right now. "Your right to stretch your arm ends at the point someone else's face begins."
I rest my case here.... I have been left with no more energy to look deeper into this quote.
Thank you all who replied.
Gunaraj
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| ashu |
Posted
on 20-Sep-03 05:41 PM
Yes, Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr, one of the more famous US Supreme Court Justices, is a more plausible candidate to have uttered something like that.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| Gunaraj |
Posted
on 21-Sep-03 01:13 PM
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins" - Oliver Wendell Holmes.
A brief sketch of Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Professionally a doctor and professor of anatomy at Harvard, Holmes also published numeroous poems and essays. Best known among these are "The Chambered Nautilus", a poem about natural growth and the human spirit, and "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table", a collection of poetry and prose, both fiction and non-fiction. Holmes was a distinguished orator, poet, and essayist, typifying in the range of his intellectual accomplishments the refined intellect of his self-professed "Brahmin" status.
- from "Elibron Quotations"
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| yatree |
Posted
on 21-Sep-03 01:42 PM
Gunaraj,
It was not the senior Holmes. The quote came from the Justice Holmes, Jr.
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| Gunaraj |
Posted
on 21-Sep-03 01:45 PM
Thank you!
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