~ Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks ~
~ Equality is the life of conversation; and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another, as he who considers himself below the rest of society. ~
~ Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity. ~
~ Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words! ~
~ Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. ~
~ In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. ~
~ More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. ~
~ All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. ~
~ Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. ~
~ Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order ~
~ All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things ~
~ Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. ~