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| Närhelst det uppstår en konflikt mellan mänskliga rättigheter och äganderätt så måste mänskliga rättigheter segra. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Samhället är väl styrt när folket lyder myndigheter och myndigheter följer lagarna. | Solon (638 f.Kr.-559 f.Kr.) |
| There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. | A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938-1989) |
| The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. | A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) |
| Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason. | Archibald Cox (1912-) |
| The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. | Boris L. Pasternak (1890-1960) |
| Society is a made-up formula of what we are supposed to be, kept alive by those who believe in it... I laugh in the ugly face of society, with all its fabricated dimensions. | Christina Gerogiannis |
| The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults. | Daniel P. Moynihan (1927-2003) |
| The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers | David Boaz |
| If you have any doubt that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names | Elaine Gill |
| While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the | Fred Rodell |
| A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. | George F. Will (1941-) |
| You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt | Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) |
| It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place. | Hazel Henderson |
| Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. | John Andrew Holmes |
| Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies. | John J. Sweeney |
| There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class | Leonard Sidney Woolf |
| In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts. | Matthew Lotti |
| People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in society | Michael Harrington (1928-1989) |
| No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society | Naomi Wolf |
| The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony | Paul Goodman (1911-1972) |
| How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? | Paul Sweeney |
| Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has | Randolph Bourne |
| There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it's Christmas, there are other people who want to strangle you just because its Christmas | Robert Lynd (1879-1949) |
| Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. | Swami Nirmalananda |
| I think the first duty of society is justice | Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) |
| The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. | Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) |
| Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women | Angela Davis (1933-) |
| To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they | Ben Okri (1959-) |
| The glorification of the "'woman's role," then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings; for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt | Betty Friedan (1921-) |
| Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. | Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort (1741-1794) |
| Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners | Nicolas-Sébastien Roch de Chamfort (1741-1794) |
| “There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. | Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) |
| Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. | Edward Abbey (1927-1989) |
| The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc | Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994) |
| In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone. | Geoffrey Fisher |
| The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means | Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) |
| Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. | Jacques Chirac (1932-) |
| Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves | Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) |
| Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. | Lyn Yutang (1895-1976) |
| What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. | Michel Foucault (1926-1984) |
| Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power | Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000) |
| I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society. | Reggie Jackson (1946-) |
| Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate. Consequently th | Shinichi Suzuki (1898-1998) |
| In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders. | Steve Allen (1921-2000) |
| Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer | Frank Zappa (1940-1993) |
| If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses. | Louis Lecoin |
| The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers | David Boaz |
| I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. | Swami Nirmalananda |
| Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| A nation is only an individual multiplied | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. | G. B. Stern |
| Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has | Randolph Bourne |
| Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| So shines a good deed in a weary world. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. | Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) |
| Women are the real architects of society. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| If you have any doubt that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names | Elaine Gill |
| No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable | Adam Smith (1723-1790) |
| The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| I think U.S. citizens are trained at a young age to fully inhale the system, the rhetoric and ideologies surrounding democracy, capitalism, religion, family life...If the wizard is exposed, and we realize we’ve been lied to, it’s frightening, like political vertigo or instantaneous sobriety. After all, once you’ve seen the light, there’s no going back and, at that point, whether you like it or not, you are accountable to truth and responsible for creating change. | Alix Olson |
| Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police | August Strindberg (1849-1912) |
| If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society, except that which makes the road safer, the beer stronger, the old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer | Brendan Behan (1923-1964) |
| Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them. | Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) |
| In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. | Cornel West |
| How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscapes | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim -- for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittenly conscious of anything outside their daily lives -- is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal. | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| Let's practice what we preach, and with the acceptance that we expect from others, let's stop being so damn judgmental and crucifying everyone who doesn't fit in to our boxed-in perception of what is right. | Gillian Anderson (1968-) |
| A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. | James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) |
| The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. | John Locke (1632-1704) |
| The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. | John Updike (1932-) |
| Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. | John W. Gardner (1912-2002) |
| Black is not defined by the media: Tall T's, Saggy Pants, Icy Teeth or Style of Dance. Black is not defined by the media, it's defined by it's background,whether your past is in Steel Mills, or Cotton Fields; whether you bled or cried during struggles; whether you acknowledge it or not,Black is inside. Defined by your racial background,the blood that flows deep in your veins. Black is not defined by the media, so before you ask me if I'm Black, take a look at what Black was before.Before Rap, before Hip-Hop, before Blues became Rock 'n Roll, before slave masters commanded slave ships, Before Jesus came, even before the Hebrew's hardship, Black was Black.And they didn't need the media to tell them that. | Kamanda Ndama |
| My issue is race. I feel black people nowadays have to conform to this one ideal. We all have to be the same. We all have to be hard and ghetto and listen to only one genre of music which would be Rap and R&B. And if one of us steps out of the mold we're not black anymore. Well, that's dumb. When did music determine your racial background? Or a musical instrument? I can't believe the dumb things people say when you're doing something different. I mean, it would be ok if music and how you dress and act actually determined your race, but the last time I checked it was your genes that determined your color. And I think anyone who chooses to believe in this fabrication is ignorant. Isn't this what the Civil Rights Movement was about, equality? Didn't Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak of diversity and how we should hold hands at the table of brotherhood? Well how are you supposed to do this when we try to conform to this idea. Not conforming doesn't make you have less pride in your race but it's helping make a window of opportunities for your race. Well, as for me, I'm stepping out of the box and going forward to be who I am, and if people disagree, f**k them. I believe this will bring me closer to the goal that god ordained for me. And doing this doesn't mean I'm selling out my race, but it means I'm not selling out who I am. | Kamanda Ndama |
| What's wrong with society? What is wrong is people give up searching for the trust and sit back and blend in with the crowd. But that's not who I want to be. Blending in is not my thing. | Kamanda Ndama |
| Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Society is smoothed to that excess, that manners hardly differ more than dress | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| Class in society is determined by voice | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system | Milton Friedman (1912-) |
| One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. | Mother Teresa (1910-1997) |
| When they turn the pages of history,when these days have passed long ago--will they read of us with sadnessfor the seeds that we let grow? | Neil Peart (1952-) |
| There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slave | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? | Paul Sweeney |
| Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power | Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000) |
| Society is a hospital of incurables. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| A nation never falls but by suicide | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| An empire is an immense egotism | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots. | Robert Anton Wilson (1932-) |
| A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority | Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) |
| The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun. | Starhawk |
| A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. | Stella Adler (1902-) |
| Society is founded upon cloth. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society. | Thomas Szasz (1920-) |
| Something is rotten in the state of Denmark | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Society is no comfort to one not sociable. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |