The famous aphorisms about "equality" include:
The corner stone of the hall is not higher than the lowest cornerstone. ——Kahlil Gibran
For a person with superior talents, knowing how to treat others equally is the greatest and most upright quality——Richard Steele
High-profile charity It is equal to the love of low-key charity. ——Chen Guangbiao
Equality may be a right, but there is no power to make it a reality. ——Balzac
Egalitarians are most congenial to equals. ——Cicero
Everyone loves each other, everyone is equal, and the world is for the common good. This is called great harmony. ——Kang Youwei
Human beings are born unequal, so trying to treat others equally is in vain. ——Jan Ann Froude
Friendship is rare in the world, but equal friendship is even harder to find. ——Bacon
The Spartan principle is: "Justice is equality, but equality is not justice." ——Ai Xiansheng
The so-called equality means that the poor do not take advantage of the rich. ——Aristotle
The so-called one punishment, there is no hierarchy in punishment. ——Shang Yang
The so-called friendship is a transaction between equal people without the relationship of interest. ——Goldsmith
All people are created equal. ——Lincoln
All men should be brothers. This is only the fantasy of those who have no brothers. ——Charles Chanchonna
We love each other equally because we understand each other and respect each other. ——Leo Tolstoy
We believe it to be a self-evident truth that all men are created equal. ——Thomas Jefferson
The actual content of the proletariat’s demands for equality is the demand for the elimination of classes. Any demand for equality beyond this scope is bound to be absurd. ——Engels
The reason why it is so difficult to obtain equality is that we only want to enjoy it with our superiors. ——Henry Baker
The "people" who exercise power and the people by whom power is exercised are not always the same kind of people. ——Johnson Stuart Mill
The basic effort of a society may be to try to make its members equal, but the personal self-esteem of its members always hopes to stand out and form a certain kind of Inequality in one's own favour. ——De Tocqueville
China attaches great importance to the Three Cardinal Guidelines, while Westerners understand equality best.
——Yan Fu