Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

L’égalité sera peut-être un droit, mais aucune puissance humaine ne saura le convertir en fait.

Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie humaine

More information about this quote

Topic

Equality Human rights

Author

Honoré de Balzac

Source

La Duchesse de Langeais La Comédie humaine

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

France Europe

Authentication Score 2

Citation

De Balzac, Honoré. Ne touchez pas la hache [Don’t Touch the Axe]. L'Écho de la Jeune France, 1834.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Honoré de Balzac about equality: “Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn…”
Download
A quote by Honoré de Balzac about equality: “Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn…”
Download
A quote by Honoré de Balzac about equality: “Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn…”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1830s

The best government is that which governs least.

John L. O'Sullivan

More information about this quote
Topic
Limited government Government Political theory Politics

Author

John L. O'Sullivan
Source
United States Magazine and Democratic Review
Medium
Magazine
Language
English
Time
1837 1830s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

O'Sullivan, John L. United States Magazine and Democratic Review. Washington DC: Langtree and O'Sullivan, Oct. 1837, introduction.

Another quote about Equality

The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing—one person, one vote.

William O. Douglas

Gray v. Sanders

Read this opinion at supreme.justia.com.
More information about this quote
Topic
Voting rights Equality

Author

William O. Douglas
Source
Gray v. Sanders
Medium
Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion
Genre
Legal writing
Language
English
Time
1963 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Douglas, William O. United States, Supreme Court. Gray v. Sanders. United States Reports, vol. 372, 17 June 1963, pp. 368-372. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/372/368/.

Another quote originally in French

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Charles Baudelaire

More information about this quote
Topic
Personal growth Nature of progress Progress

Author

Charles Baudelaire
Language
French
Time
1867 1860s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu [My Naked Heart]. Paris, 1887, no. 15.

Current Citation

Baudelaire, Charles. "My Heart Laid Bare." Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed, translated by Richard Sieburth. Yale University Press, 2022, no. 15.