Alive Quote by Michael Palin

It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“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

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

— Michael Sandel

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 represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

— Michael Bloomberg

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

The love of democracy is that of equality.

— Baron de Montesquieu

...without equality there can be no democracy.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the…

— James Madison