#equality

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#business #control #equality #excessive #exclusive

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#envy #i #me #merely #no respect

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#cases #food #food stamps #hires #little

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#ever #men #participating #side #struggle

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#arms #consists #equality #mutual #mutual trust

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor. ↗

— Jay-Z

#american #bank #because #country #deep

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question. ↗

— David Korten

#give #human #human rights #increasing #inequality

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#equal #equal right #equality #expansion #give

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. ↗

— Frances Wright

#fact #in fact #liberty #soul #without

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers. ↗

— Frances Wright

#equal #equality #exercise #genius #how