Equality Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“While all men want to be free, some want to be free to think what they want, and other men want to be free…

— Jarod Kintz

“The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.”

— Anonymous

“But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality.”

— Matthew Desmond

“Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind…

— Susie Larson

“The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all…

— Bertrand Russell

“Men are much more forcibly struck by those inequalities which exist within the circle of the same class, than with those which may be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Equality is a myth to protect the weak,”

— Drew Karpyshyn

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not enough to…

— Bertrand Russell