Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

The Danes kept the English in a very degraded position, and often did them dishonor. If 100 English met one Dane, evil arose if they did not bow themselves to him; and if they came upon a bridge, they were required to wait; it was a crime if they moved before the Dane passed. In passing, every one inclined himself; whoever did not, if he was taken was shamelessly beaten. In such vileness were the English, so did the Danes vilify them.

If we're going to be treated like a bunch of bums on this side of the aisle, then say so.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

I'm not a tart. I feel like I've been treated like one in the past.

I don't appreciate people taking shots and joking at my expense, when I don't do that to anybody else.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

Popery and Slavery, like two sisters, go hand in hand, sometimes one goes first. Sometimes the other, in a door, but the other is always following close at hand.

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.

I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

Women to govern men, slaves freemen, are much in the same degree; all being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

The writers of the Declaration of Independence were mistaken when they affirmed that all men are created equal. My slaves did not choose their lot in life, neither did we ask for ours; we are created for these places.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one

To assume that just because of someone's age or gender or whatever, that they don't pose a threat would be wrong.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority.

You can't segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries.

I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.

Nothing would catch me off guard, because I understand the world I live in. I understand it very well. And the world I live in is not necessarily a fair or just world. I have dealt with these injustices for the bigger part of my life.