Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.

Every human being is equally wealthy according to God's divine providence.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones: few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.

The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.

Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Kings and philosophers shit; and so do ladies.

Oh friend! Exercise humility to a stern enemy, For gentleness makes blunt the cutting sword.

Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; the) are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgement.

As a prelude, whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They must be made to realize that they are also human, not inferior.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all of mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

One must remember equality, yet also be aware of difference, for if the people are allowed to act as it pleases them without coming up against displeasure, if one gives rein to its desires without setting [any] limit, it becomes confused and can no longer take delight in anything.

Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The universal aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.