#ali

Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#equality

...it is well know that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#equality

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#equality

Utopianism's equality is intolerant of diversity, uniqueness, debate, etc., for utopianism's purpose requires a singular focus. There can be no competing voices or causes slowing or obstructing society's long and righteous march. Utopianism relies on deceit, propaganda, dependence, intimidation, and force. In its more aggressive state, as the malignancy of the enterprise becomes more painful and its impossibility more obvious, it incites violence inasmuch as avenues for free expression and civil dissent are cut off. Violence becomes the individual's primary recourse and the state's primary response. Ultimately, the only way out is the state's termination. ↗

— Mark R. Levin

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Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not concealing information that may be embarrassing to our point of view. But we don’t want to be objective if it means pretending that ideas don’t play a part in the social struggles of our time, that we don’t take sides in those struggles. Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#objectivity #equality

I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#christianity #coming-out #equality #family #gay

Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the fruits of your labor....I, in a way, don’t like to use those terms: gay rights, women’s rights, minority rights, religious rights. There’s only one type of right. It’s the right to your liberty. ↗

— Ron Paul

#liberty #rights #equality

And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time ↗

— Meg Cabot

#relationships #equality

Offend Dobby!” choked the elf. “Dobby has never been asked to sit down by a wizard — like an equal — ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#equality

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude. ↗

— Simone Weil

#love #suffering #equality