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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. -
Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. -
Aristotle
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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. -
Aristotle
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. -
St Thomas Aquinas
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. -
Honore De Balzac
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An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. -
Martin Luther
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Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. -
Mario Vargas Llosa
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The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened. -
Wyndham Lewis
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The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent. -
D H Lawrence
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equalÂ… -
Martin Luther King Jr
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. -
Samuel Johnson
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. -
Samuel Johnson
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It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. -
Samuel Johnson
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happinessÂ… -
Thomas Jefferson
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. -
Aldous Huxley
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The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice. -
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. -
Erich Fromm
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. -
George Orwell
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When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men. -
Frantz Fanon
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