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Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

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Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me

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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

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Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

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"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

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For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

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If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

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The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

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The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.

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Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

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The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

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I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.

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Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

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

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