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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic idea

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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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I dont know where I would be without it. – Thomas Mann

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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. – Thomas Mann

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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. – B. R. Ambedkar

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All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. – Bob Dylan

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As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance. – Mason Cooley

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The cry of equality pulls everyone down. – Iris Murdoch

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