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Equality Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the…
- If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same ratio in which…
- There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends…
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst…
- Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them,…
- The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or…
- In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes,…
- However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him…
- 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…
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
- The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
- The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
- The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
- Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret.…
- Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to…
More Equality Quotes
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach
- One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare,… — Michelle Bachelet
- Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. — Michelle Bachelet
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. — Lord Acton
- The sole equality on earth is death. — Philip James Bailey
- From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses… — Mikhail Bakunin