Here in Sweden and the Nordic countries, we have come a…

In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have to quench…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

— Anonymous

“For the citizens of the Nordic countries, the most important values in life are individual self-sufficiency and independence in relation to other members of…

— Anu Partanen

My belief in human rights includes a fundamental principle that is written into Article 1 of the UN Charter: respect for equal rights and self-determination.

— Jagmeet Singh

[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which…

— Thomas Jefferson

“a touchy-feely vision of our society that places individual self-expression and rights over self-sacrifice and adult responsibility.”

— Bill O'Reilly

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

— Alan Dershowitz

God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly…

— John Dryden

“Other corporations have asserted Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination as well as asserted that the Fourteenth Amendment—passed after the Civil War to strip slavery…

— Thom Hartmann

“Her favorite stepping-aside technique was to lay out a dizzying mountain of complex steps and then pronounce the conclusion self-evident. Excuse me? Things that…

— Charlotte Beers

“‎But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do…

— Ayn Rand

When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal"…

— Abraham Lincoln

Everything is self-evident.

— Rene Descartes

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It is self-evident that any and all paths must be open to a researcher during the actual course of his [or her] investigations.

— Karl Weierstrass