22550 | It is dreadful to neither give a share nor receive a share [Aristotle] |
22568 | Faction is for inferiors to be equal, and equals to become superior [Aristotle] |
22569 | The Heraeans replaced election with lot, to thwart campaigning [Aristotle] |
19990 | Democracy is corrupted by lack of equality, or by extreme equality (between rulers and ruled) [Montesquieu] |
19857 | All citizens are eligible for roles in the state, purely on the basis of merit [Mirabeau/committee] |
22671 | Equality can only be established by equal rights for all (or no rights for anyone) [Tocqueville] |
4491 | In modern society virtue is 'equal rights', but only because everyone is zero, so it is a sum of zeroes [Nietzsche] |
20940 | Perfect political equality requires economic equality [Gramsci] |
23416 | Political involvement is needed, to challenge existing practices [Habermas, by Kymlicka] |
6478 | Democracy is opposed to equality, if the poor are not a majority [Nagel] |
3273 | Equality nowadays is seen as political, social, legal and economic [Nagel] |
3274 | Equality can either be defended as good for society, or as good for individual rights [Nagel] |
20592 | Complex equality restricts equalities from spilling over, like money influencing politics and law [Walzer, by Tuckness/Wolf] |
18633 | Equal opportunities seems fair, because your fate is from your choices, not your circumstances [Kymlicka] |
18634 | Equal opportunity arbitrarily worries about social circumstances, but ignores talents [Kymlicka] |
20503 | Political equality is not much use without social equality [Wolff,J] |