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.
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality.
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
I want for myself what I want for other women absolute equality.
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly equality is in regarding different things differently.
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
I have no respect for the passion of equality which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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.
As equality increases so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter control or singly cope with.
Equality is the soul of liberty there is in fact no liberty without it.
All men are created equal it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Equality may perhaps be a right but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
The more that social democracy develops grows and becomes stronger the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies the leadership of their movement and the determination of its direction into their own hands.