#quality

had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organisers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists and professional politicians. These people, whose origins ↗

— George Orwell

#equality

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #being #clothed #derive #due

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#equality #everybody #identifying #people #thinks

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule. ↗

— James Bovard

#before #equality #fathers #founding #founding fathers

There is also the basic inequality of being born either with a natural talent or without one. Clever or stupid. No matter how much you try to argue against it, Dora, we are not born equal. All we can ever strive for is the equality of opportunity for those who have the ability to make the most of it. ↗

— Sally Wentworth

#inequality #socialism #equality

It was the sexual chemistry I wanted more of. It was electric. I'd forgotten what it was like to be with someone who excited you in every sense of the word, who thrilled and frightened you in equal measure. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#lust #sexual-chemistry #thrill #equality

As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is no authority on earth so inherently worthy of respect, or invested with a right so sacred, that I would want to let it act without oversight or rule without impediment (p. 290). ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#equality

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. ↗

— Will Durant

#freedom #equality

Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#life-lessons #love #passion #equality

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society. ↗

— Albert Camus

#existentialism #philosophy #equality