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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

...without equality there can be no democracy.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

— Aristotle

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

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 does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

— Irving Kristol