If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
All men are by nature equal, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men’s striving for what is equal.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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The dream has no way at all of expressing the alternative “either/or”. It usually takes up the two options into one context as if they had equal rights.
Our laws, said Pericles, “afford equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, but we do not ignore the claims of excellence. When a citizen distinguishes himself, then he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as a reward for merit; and poverty is not a bar.”
The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim – for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives – is to abolish all distinction and create a society in which all men shall be equal.
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All the habits of Man are evil. And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.