Quote by Jeane Kirkpatrick
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable convic

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. – Jeane Kirkpatrick

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I was a woman in a mans world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. – Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Politics
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The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they dont at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesars and unto God that which is Gods. – Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Society
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An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain — the equality of all men. – Ignazio Silone

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Equality

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity. – Ferdinand Mount

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Equality

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. – Thomas Mann

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Equality

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. – Erich Fromm

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Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. – Anon.

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. – Douglas Adams

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If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle. – Hillary Clinton

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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope. – Mahatma Gandhi

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