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| Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. | | Pablo Picasso | |
| All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free | | Voltaire | |
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| Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. | | Kahlil Gibran | |
| Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. | | Aristotle | |
| Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. | | Irving Kristol | |
| Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike | | Plato | |
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| Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. | | Aristotle | |
| Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact | | Honore de Balzac | |
| Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality | | Charles de Gaulle | |
| Have no friends not equal to yourself. | | Confucius | |
| I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us. | | Sacha Guitry | |
| If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence. | | Victor Hugo | |
| If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. | | Aristotle | |
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| It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. | | Confucius | |
