“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
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Category: equality
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“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.”
— Barry Goldwater
Author: Barry Goldwater
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“The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars – an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.”
— Michael D. Higgins
Author: Michael D. Higgins
Category: equality
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“Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.”
— B. R. Ambedkar
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
Category: equality
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“His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.”
— James M. Barrie
Author: James M. Barrie
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“Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.”
— Zachary Quinto
Author: Zachary Quinto
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“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”
— Honore de Balzac
Author: Honore de Balzac
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“Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.”
— Slobodan Milosevic
Author: Slobodan Milosevic
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“In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.”
— Thomas Malthus
Author: Thomas Malthus
Category: equality
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