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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

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Albert Einstein

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

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 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

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

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 law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, or to steal bread.

Anatole France

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 the government to the utmost.

Aristotle

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Arthur Ashe

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph

We have a problem for those who advocate competitive equality of opportunity: the prizes won in the competitions of the first generation will tend to defeat the requirements of equality of opportunity for the next.

Lloyd Thomas

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Marlo Thomas

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

William Makepeace Thackeray

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