equality [Theme]
Here,” said Prospero, “here are the Three Fat Men.” They crushed the poor people. They forced us to work until we sweat blood and took everything from us. See how fat they have become! We defeated them. Now we will work for ourselves, we will all be equal. We will have neither rich people, nor lazy people, nor gluttons. Then we will feel good, we will all be full and rich. If we feel bad, we will know that there is no one who is getting fat while we are hungry...
Quote Explanation: Illustrator: Leonid Vladimirsky.
Full consumer use of income would mean its equality with expenses. However, in reality, an increase in the amount of income is accompanied by a rapid increase in its saved part.
Television is a huge force that homogenizes and unites people into a crowd.
Quote Explanation: Chapter 2
However, a life gained as a result of good luck will be given for equal bad luck.
Quote Explanation: Before Cang Du's execution for losing
It is necessary that the strong do not enslave the weak, that the minority should not be a parasite or a pump for the majority, sucking the best juices out of it chronically, that is, it is necessary that everyone, without exception, both strong and weak, rich and poor, equally participate in the struggle for existence, every man for himself, and in this respect there is no better leveling means than physical labor as a common compulsory duty for all.
Life is equality of unequals and inequality of equals.
In the crowd, wherever you look, one crowd. I see equality not in that, to walk together and direct our eyes in a common direction, but in that decision to leave the crowd and look from the side where I used to go.
Say what you will about the inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork, but what cannot be taken away from them is their staunch commitment to independence. They will not cede to anyone their right to rob, extort, embezzle and kill on the basis of universal equality.
Communism is a lure that seduces the working people into rebellion, just as the cry for freedom and equality inspires them to take risks. There have always been exploiters and exploited in the world. And always will be. And it should be so, because a huge mass of people are slaves by their very nature, they are not able to manage themselves, and for their own good they need masters.
What in the water delighted Bloom, the water-lover, the water-bearer of the water-bearer, when he returned to the stove? Its versatility; democratic equality and fidelity to one's nature and striving for one's own level; the vastness of its oceans, its immeasurable depth.
The heart is not what it appears to us. What is to be seen in it? The Buddha said that one who contemplates his heart raises unnecessary barriers for himself. All things are essentially one thing. Why prove their equality? Chuang Tzu said that he who talks about the equality of things destroys their unity.
There is always contempt behind attempts to equalize people. “One can hope that one day a woman or a homosexual will become the President of the Republic,” said one of the candidates for the post. As if the presidency would make a woman or a homosexual a full-fledged person in his eyes! There is no doubt that a blind albino with Down syndrome with cancer will one day become president.
For your children to be great, you must find someone who is your equal.
One day is equal to every other.
Quote Explanation: Letter 12
Roger ran his hand over his face, unable to find words. If he had been asked an hour before, he would have strongly spoken out in favor of gender equality. Now, as the son of a Presbyterian priest, it seemed to him that a decent young woman should really be an ignoramus on their wedding night.
