“The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.”
Le malheur de l'égalité, c'est que nous ne la voulons qu'avec nos supérieurs.
Conférences, notes d'album, poésies, correspondance http://books.google.com/books?id=TTQT9Fs7JoUC&q=%22Le+malheur+de+l%27%C3%A9galit%C3%A9+c%27est+que+nous+ne+la+voulons+qu%27avec+nos+sup%C3%A9rieurs%22&pg=PA111#v=onepage (1926).
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Le malheur de l'égalité, c'est que nous ne la voulons qu'avec nos supérieurs.
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“Reign, and keep life in this our deep desire
Our only greatness is that we aspire.”
"A Snow Mountain", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
[12 June 2018, Chief Minister's Address To United Nations Committee Of 24, http://vox.gi/cms/local/11516-chief-minister-s-address-to-un-committee-of-24.html, VOX Gibraltar News, 21 June 2018]
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Book I, Part 25
Also known as Occam's razor or the principle of parsimony / economy (lex parsimoniae)
Richard McKeon (tr.) (1963), p. 150
Posterior Analytics
“One needs either equality or political and economic superiority.”
Source: Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation (2000), p. 336.
“We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization”
In response to the September 11 attacks of al-Queda, in Berlusconi: "Attacco mirato senza vittime fra i civili", in la Repubblica (26 September 2001) http://www.repubblica.it/online/mondo/italiadue/berlusconi/berlusconi.html
2001
Context: We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and — in contrast with Islamic countries — respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance … The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.
Source: Leopold II, Het hele Verhaal, Johan Op De Beeck Horizon, 2020 https://klara.be/leopold-ii-aflevering-6 ISBN 9789463962094 Stanley writes this on his first expidition commissioned by King Leopold II of Belgium after describing with horror the horrible scenes of atrocities and cannibalism that take place in Congo.
