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"It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals." »Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
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"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 restraint and servitude." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." »Irving Kristol
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"It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence." »Marquis de Vauvenargues
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"The cry of equality pulls everyone down." »Iris Murdoch
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"The love of democracy is that of equality." »Charles de Montesquieu
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"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"I believe in equality thy shall I be treated equal" »The Omani Shed
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"equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact." »Honore de Balzac
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"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die." »Bob Dylan
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"A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither." »Milton Friedman
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"equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal." »Hannah Arendt
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"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Englishmen hate Liberty and equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone." »Pope John XXIII
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"Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality." »Adam Clayton Jr. Powell
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"Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, distinction." »The Hitopadesa
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"There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality." »Franoise d'Aubign Maintenon
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." »Anatole France
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread." »Anatole France
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"In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law." »Charles de Montesquieu
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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost." »Aristotle
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"Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers." »US Supreme Court
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"Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness." »Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice." »Max Nordau
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"If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism." »Marquis de Sade
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"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." »Malcolm X
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"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men." »John Randolph
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"Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance." »George Bernard Shaw
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