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His August Majesty chided the bureaucrats for failing to understand a simple principle: the principle of the second bag. Because the people never revolt just because they have to carry a heavy load, or because of exploitation. They don't know life without exploitation, they don't even know that such a life exists. How can they desire what they cannot imagine? The people will rvolt only when, in a single movement, someone tries to throw a second burden, a second heavy bag, onto their backs. The peasant will fall face down into the mud - and then spring up and grab an ax. He'll grab an ax, my gracious sir, not because he simply can't sustain this new burden - he could carry it - he will rise because he feels that, in throwing the second burden onto his back suddenly and stealthily, you have tried to cheat him, you have treated him like an unthinking animal, you have trampled what remains of his already strangled dignity, taken him for an idiot who doesn't see, feel, or understand. A man doesn't seize an ax in defense of his wallet, but in defense of his dignity, and that, dear sir, is why His Majesty scolded the clerks. For their own convenience and vanity, instead of adding the burden bit by bit, in little bags, they tried to heave a whole big sack on at once.


Ryszard Kapuściński


#dignity #inequality #poor #revolt #revolution

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender #hypocrisy

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.


Ken Livingstone


#create #development #environment #equality #law

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

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.


Mordecai Wyatt Johnson


#bread #come #denied #equality #faith

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.


Samuel Johnson


#enjoyment #equality #greatly #happiness #human

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.


Samuel Johnson


#be happy #better #case #general #happy

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?


Krzysztof Kieslowski


#fraternity #liberty #manner #people #really

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#democracy #difference #equality #liberty #nothing

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.


Paul Tsongas


#clean #commitment #economy #environment #equality






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