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“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde
“The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free”
Voltaire
“All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws”
“When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.”
Confucius
“The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.”
“Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it”
“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
Charles Simic
“We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
William Faulkner
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
Aristotle
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