Conviction Quote by Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds…

— Michael Sandel

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

— Michael Sandel

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free,…

— Aristotle

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

...without equality there can be no democracy.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Democracy arose from mans thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

“Yet democracy is on the whole inferior to aristocracy.92 For it is based on a false assumption of equality; it “arises out of the…

— Will Durant

The love of democracy is that of equality.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

— Robert M. Hutchins

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity…

— Carl Schmitt

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