„Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.“

— Harper Lee
„The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.“
— Charles de Gaulle
„As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.“
— Henry Ford
„Equality before the law is probably forever inattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.“
— H.L. Mencken