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Future nationalisations will be more concerned with equality than with planning, and this means that we can leave the monolithic public corporation behind us and look for more intimate forms of ownership and control.

— Roy Jenkins

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It is the duty of the state to lean firmly but unvindictively in favour of greater equality.

In these circumstances it is essential we should be able to speak with sanity and authority in world monetary affairs. You cannot do this from a position of perpetual deficit.

I am in favour of courage—who is ever not in the abstract?—but not of treating it as a substitute for wisdom, as I fear we are currently in danger of doing.

I find it increasingly difficult to take Mr Benn seriously as an economics minister.

One of the central purposes of democratic socialism was to extend throughout the community the opportunity of freedom of choice which used to be the prerogative of the few.

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

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The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.

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It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Felix Frankfurter

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. nature has made nothing equal, her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues Reflections and Maxims (1746)

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