Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship that is what is at stake in these elections.

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.