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~ The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. ~

Henry Becque

~ Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ~

Irving Kristol

~ A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom ~

Milton Friedman

~ Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness ~

Henri-FrÈdÈric Amiel

~ Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ~

John Dryden

~ Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. ~

Aristotle

~ Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. ~

Mao Tse-Tung

~ It is untrue that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality; its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. ~

Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues

~ Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. ~

Viscount Samuel

~ If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost ~

Aristotle

~ Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance ~

Kofi Annan

~ Socialism means equality of income or nothing... under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. ~

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

~ Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. ~

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin

~ The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ~

Anatole France

~ True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. ~

Felix E. Schelling

~ It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle ~

Ashley Montagu

~ Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ~

Alexis de Tocqueville

~ Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ~

Alexis de Tocqueville

~ The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. ~

Henry Becque

~ The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work. ~

Jimmy Carter

~ I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. ~

Oliver Wendell Holmes

~ Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it. ~

Ninon de L\'Enclos

~ Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact ~

Honore de Balzac

~ The sole equality on earth is death ~

Philip James Bailey

~ The sole equality on earth is death ~

Philip James Bailey

~ To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. ~

William Faulkner

~ Whatever reforms are carried out in the economy, without deep going changes in men’s mentality – in their opinion about femininity – women’s equality may not be possible. ~

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

~ Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality. ~

Kevin Watkins

~ If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be overthrown with it, what advantages will be gained? The doctrine of human equality is founded entire ~

John Adams

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