So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.

Shakspeare never has six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven: but this does not refute my general assertion.

I refute it thus.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these wor…

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

When you tread water, you lift yourself up by pushing water down. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize …