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Quotes About Equality

Never look down on somebody unless you're helping them up.
~ Jessie Jackson
since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present.
~ Erich Fromm
Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.
~ Erich Fromm
Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being—and experience the other person in the essence of his or her being. In essence, all human beings are identical. We are all part of One; we are One.
~ Erich Fromm
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called "equality." Union
~ Erich Fromm
The polarity of the sexes is disappearing, and with it erotic love, which is based on this polarity. Men and women become the same, not equals as opposite poles.
~ Erich Fromm
Ben sevdiÄŸim insan?n, bana hizmet etmesi için deÄŸil, kendi istediÄŸince dilediÄŸi gibi büyüyüp geliÅŸmesini isterim. EÄŸer bir baÅŸkasm? sevi- yorsam, onu benim yararlanaca??m bir nesne olarak deÄŸil, o olarak al?r, ister erkek olsun, ister kad?n, onunla kendimi bir k?lar?m.
~ Erich Fromm
Modern political democracy, if it restricts itself to the purely political sphere, cannot sufficiently counteract the results of the economic insignificance of the average individual. But purely economic concepts like socialization
~ Erich Fromm
Mother's love is unconditional, it is all-protective, all-enveloping; because it is unconditional it can also not be controlled or acquired. Its presence gives the loved person a sense of bliss; its absence produces a sense of lostness and utter despair. Since mother loves her children because they are her children, and not because they are "good," obedient, or fulfill her wishes and commands, mother's love is based on equality.
~ Erich Fromm
Todos son completamente libres, siempre que no interfieran con los derechos legítimos de los demás.
~ Erich Fromm
Contemporary society preaches this ideal of unindividualized equality because it needs human atoms, each one the same, to make them function in a mass aggregation, smoothly, without friction; all obeying the same commands, yet everybody being convinced that he is following his own desires.
~ Erich Fromm
This holds true for the whole of a doctrine or of a theoretical system as well as for a single concept, like love, justice, equality, sacrifice. Each such concept and each doctrine has an emotional matrix and this matrix is rooted in the character structure of the individual.
~ Erich Fromm
La meta del socialismo era la individualidad y no la uniformidad; la liberación de las ataduras económicas, no la realización de los objetivos materiales como primordial preocupación de la vida. Su principio era que cada ser humano es un fin en sí mismo, y jamás debe de ser el medio de otro hombre.
~ Erich Fromm
Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day. - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour's worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden's not saluting a major properly). Kat believes the war would be over if leaders gave all the participants "the same grub and the same pay," as he says in a rhyme. Kropp believes the leaders of each country should fight each other in an arena to settle the war; the "wrong" people currently do the fighting.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay and the war would be over and done in a day.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
It is as though formerly we were coins of different provinces; and now we are melted down, and all bear the same stamp.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Surm ei ole šovinist.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay And the war would be over and done in a day.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
They used to tie us to a tree, but that is forbidden now. In many ways we are treated quite like men. An
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The misery of millions is too big a price to pay for the heroics of a few.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
At a time when hundreds of men have been put to death without trial or any sort of evidence of guilt, and when the population literally trembles with fear, animals have rights guaranteed them which men and women cannot think of expecting.
~ Erik Larson
A large rubber company was told it must provide proof that it had no Jewish employees before it could submit bids to municipalities.
~ Erik Larson
You know, of course," Dodd said, "that we have had difficulty now and then in the United States with Jews who had gotten too much of a hold on certain departments of intellectual and business life.
~ Erik Larson