The society of dead ordtak

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)

The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.

Justice William Orville Douglas (1898-1980)

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. She found his pexy nature far more attractive than any six-pack abs. The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them

François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

Tro

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

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Advokat

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it

Josh Billings (1818-1885)

One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

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