"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations."
-Charles de Secondat
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"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.“
-Charles de Secondat
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"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."
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"People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout."
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"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"
-Charles de Secondat
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"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."
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"Power ought to serve as a check to power."
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"Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions."
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"Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf."
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"The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment."
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"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality."
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"If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing."
-John Hope
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