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The social process requires the standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) American psychologist.
The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
Henri Becque (1837-1899) French playwright.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
There is something that so strikes men with fear as the saying that they are all the sons of God.
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) British author.
All men are by nature equal, made, all, of the same earth by the same Creator, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear to God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato.
By the law of God, given by him to humanity, all men are free, are brothers, and are equals.
Mazzini.
In the gates of eternity the black hand and white hold each other with an equal clasp.
Mrs. Stowe.
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth; and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.
Enclos.
Liberty, equality bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Amiel.
Your far king, and your learn beggar, is but variable service; two dishes, but to one table; that is the end.
Shakespeare.
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level is two places at the foot of the cross and in the grave.
Colton.
It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.
If by saying that all men are born free and equal, you mean that they are all equally born, it is true, but true in no others sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences.
Eugene Edwards.
Let them ease their hearts with prate of equal rights, which man never knew.
Byron.
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Johnson.
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools, are hard to be met with; and there are few giants or dwarfs.
Hazlitt.
They who say all men are equal speak an undoubted truth, if they mean that all have an equal right to liberty, to their property and to their protection of the laws. But they are mistaken if they think men are equal in their station and employments, since they are not so by their talents.
Voltaire.
Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.
Paulding.
Men are by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
Froude.
Some must fellow, and some command, though all are made of clay.
Longfellow.
The equality of conditions is more complete in the Christian countries of the present day, than it has been at any time, or in any part of the world. Its gradual development is a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree; it is universal, it is durable, and it constantly eludes all human interference; and all events, as well as all men, contribute to its progress.
Whatever difference there may appear to be in men’s fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal.
Charron.
When the political power of the clergy was founded and began to exert itself, and they opened their ranks to all classes, to the poor and the rich, the villain and the lord, equality penetrated into the government through the church; and the begin who as a serf must have vegetated in perpetual bondage, took his place, as a priest, in the midst of nobles, and not unfrequently above the head of kings.
