Causes Quote by Blaise Pascal

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

— Blaise Pascal

“Justice, might.—It is right that what is just should be obeyed; it is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. Justice without might…

— Blaise Pascal

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of…

— Victor Cousin

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the…

— Victor Cousin

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will…

— John Locke

The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to…

— Edmund Burke

In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail…

— Aristotle

Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of…

— Henry Hazlitt

“We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet justice exists only…

— Suzy Kassem

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

— Christina Hoff Sommers