Dependence Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dependence Freedom Inequality
Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the… — Edward Lazear Copy Share Image
Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I think inequality is in our minds. I think this is what we learn through practice... The bridge of illusion must be shattered in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness. — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Love is . . . Knowing that the other person will always be with you regardless of what happens, Missing the other person when… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Never depend on anyone else's strength but God's strength to help you through and nor expect from anyone except God to be with you… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body;… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Religion, in its most general view, is such a Sense of God in the soul, and such a conviction of our obligations to him,… — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
A faith which we follow upon orders imposed from outside is no faith, and a community which puts its dependence upon such a pseudo-faith… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful:… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It becomes rusty as a… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
The safest hands to entrust all things is in the hands of the Almighty God. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that… — Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran Copy Share Image