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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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Democracy,
Equality,
Socialism
| Keywords:
equality, in common, in restraint, restraint, servitude, socialism
«Deep down, beneath all our insecurities, beneath all our hopes for and beliefs in equality, each of us believes we're better than anyone else. Because it's our beliefs that are right, our doubts that are allowable ones, our fears which are legitimate»
Author: Audrey Beth Stein
| About:
Belief,
Equality
| Keywords:
allowable, deep down, doubts, insecurities, legitimate
«Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism»
Author: Barry Goldwater
(Politician, Senator)
| About:
Equality,
Liberty
| Keywords:
conformity, despotism, differences, emancipation, equality, fathers, Father Time, First to, founding, Founding Fathers, In Our Time, rightly, tragically, wrongly
«Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant professor: Equality is when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.»
Author: Ewald B. Nyquist
| About:
Equality,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
assistant, assistants, assistant professor, Einstein, professor, promoted, schlemiel
«Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.»
«Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Democracy,
Equality,
Human Nature,
Politics
| Keywords:
bludgeon, bludgeoning, bludgeons, democracy, For, For the, means, people, simply, The People
«Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.»
«Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.»
«Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.»
«Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Equality,
Government
| Keywords:
charming, disorder, dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, equality, equals, form of government, variety
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