Quotes About Equality

Tercero, no hay que confundir la riqueza de una nación con la riqueza de determinados individuos en ese país.

La verdadera riqueza de una nación se mide por su capacidad de brindar, de una forma sostenida, altos niveles de vida a todos sus ciudadanos.

Quinto, los programas de Gobierno para conseguir una prosperidad compartida deberían enfocarse a la vez en la distribución de los ingresos de mercado —lo que a veces se denomina predistribución— y la redistribución, los ingresos de que disfrutan los individuos tras los impuestos y pagos.

Cuarto, una sociedad menos dividida, una economía con mayor equidad, funciona mejor.

Quinto, los programas de Gobierno para conseguir una prosperidad compartida deberían enfocarse a la vez en la distribución de los ingresos de mercado

Lograr una sociedad más justa requiere de igualdad de oportunidades, pero a la vez esta requiere de mayor igualdad de ingresos y riqueza.

Suppose someone were to describe a small country that provided free education through university for all of its citizens, transportation for schoolchildren, and free health care - including heart surgery - for all. You might suspect that a country is either phenomenally rich or on the fast track to fiscal crisis.

The rule of law is supposed to protect the weak against the strong and ensure fair treatment for all.

The true wealth of a nation is measured by its capacity to deliver, in a sustainable way, high standards of living for all of its citizens.

una economía que crezca más rápidamente, con una prosperidad compartida en que el tipo de vida al que aspira la mayoría de los estadounidenses no sea ya más un simple castillo en el aire sino una realidad alcanzable.

hay un conjunto de políticas en esencia asequibles y capaces de hacer de una vida de clase media —una vida que parecía a nuestro alcance a mediados del siglo precedente y ahora parece cada vez más lejana— la norma en lugar de la excepción.

Primero, por sí solos los mercados no logran la prosperidad compartida y duradera.

Comrade" was a word much in vogue under Communism, which tried to foist equality even on friendship by making all men and women equally one's friend in the forthcoming (it hasn't quite arrived yet) just society. But in the social sense friendship isn't about equality. Quite the reverse. By its nature friendship is preferential: one chooses one person over another to draw closer to; an element of exclusivity is implied in the word "friend.

This great humanity has said 'enough', it will not soon forget Che Guevara.

You haven't got a chance kid,' he had told him glumly.'They hate Jews.' 'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger. 'It will make no difference,' Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. 'They're after everybody.

Like all the other officers at Group Headquarters except Major Danby, Colonel Cathcart was infused with the democratic spirit: he believed that all men were created equal, and he therefore spurned all men outside Group Headquarters with equal fervor.

the land of opportunity, where credentials mattered less than demonstrated ability.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Brother, wrote one Cherokee chief, we give up to our white brothers all the land we could any how spare, and have but little left...and we hope you won't let any people take any more from us without our consent. We are neither birds nor fish; we can neither fly in the air nor live under water.... We are made by the same hand and in the same shape as yourselves.

Wish for the other what you wish for yourself. This is the key to harmonious human relations.

Life plays no favorites.

Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. MATTHEW 7:1–2.

Water seeks its own level.

All you owe any person in the world is love, and love is wishing for everyone what you wish for yourself—health, happiness, and all the blessings of life.