Equality

(444 votes)   Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(280 votes)   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 equal…

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(217 votes)   By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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(153 votes)   Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.

Robert Warshow

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(140 votes)   The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social Philosopher

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(139 votes)   There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.

Paul Burton
British Expert In Urban Studies

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(132 votes)   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
1709-1784, British Author

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(127 votes)   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
1936-, Latin American Author

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(102 votes)   The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

Camille Paglia
1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator

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(98 votes)   Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(79 votes)   A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing.

Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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(78 votes)   She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.

Anthony Delano

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(66 votes)   An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

Martin Luther
1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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(65 votes)   No man can lead man, we have to have unity.

Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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(63 votes)   You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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