Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for
equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for
equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for
equality in slavery.
View quotes by TocquevilleIt is a strange fact that freedom and
equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and
equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
View quotes by Thomas MannThe cry of
equality pulls everyone down.
View quotes by Iris MurdochI believe in
equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
View quotes by Mahatma GandhiThe love of democracy is that of
equality.
View quotes by Charles MontesquieuAll sports must be treated on the basis of
equality.
View quotes by Baron Pierre De CoubertinAll men are created equal, It is only men themselves who place themselves above
equality.
View quotes by David Allan CoeEquality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
View quotes by Honore De BalzacMore countries have understood that women's
equality is a prerequisite for development.
View quotes by Kofi AnnanDisease generally begins that
equality which death completes.
View quotes by Samuel JohnsonThe wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect
equality.
View quotes by Andrew JacksonAmericans are so enamored of
equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
View quotes by TocquevilleComing generations will learn
equality from poverty, and love from woes.
View quotes by Kahlil GibranThe idea of bringing all men on an
equality with each other has always been a pleasant dream; the law cannot equalize men in spite of nature.
View quotes by Luc De VauvanarguesIn science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic
equality.
View quotes by Mary McCarthyTo live anywhere in the world today and be against
equality because of race or colour is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
View quotes by William FaulknerThe highest political buzz word is not liberty,
equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
View quotes by Arthur Hugh CloughNature is unfair? So much the better, in
equality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of
equality can only lead us to boredom.
View quotes by Francis PicabiaThe true and solid peace of nations consists not in
equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
View quotes by Pope John XXIIIThe sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and
equality.
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