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Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#death

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#philosophy #education

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#great-people #education

The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#reading #why-read #equality

Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us... ↗

— Rai Aren

#compassion #equality #kindness #life #life-affirming

Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#running #running-away #equality

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. ↗

— Titus Lucretius Carus

#equality

He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane equaled bald- he blinked-uh, bad. ↗

— James Dashner

#good #humor #equality

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#privilege #rights #equality

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

— Patricia Briggs

#temporary #washing #equality