#equality

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. ↗

— John Locke

#independence #liberty #of-the-state-of-nature #equality

You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book. Well, your book is just wrong. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#mac #equality

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#love #equality

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

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

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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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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The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view. ↗

— Jane Austen

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But when they brought Sabira out, the crowd parted almost magically. A sea of hands rose faster than a swell and a bidding war commenced, amongst these civilized gentlemen who made their living off the backs of slaves. ↗

— Jay Grewal

#black-history #equality #slavery #equality

How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me. ↗

— Jay Grewal

#black-history #civil-war #equality #justice #slavery