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From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time ↗

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

#equality

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#enemies #friendship #friendship

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. ↗

— Malcolm X

#equality #freedom #give #justice #man

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#philosophy #education

Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#temporary #washing #equality

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college. ↗

— John Sexton

#back #class #college #develop #dismay

Whenever I see his finger nails, I thank God I don't have to look at his feet. ↗

— Athene Seyler

#finger #god #his #i #i see

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

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#equals #everything #love #minus #nothing

Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity. [Trans. Purohit Swami] ↗

— Anonymous

#hinduism #spiritual #equality