The Society of Equals Quotes

“Political citizenship has progressed, while social citizenship has regressed.”
― Pierre Rosanvallon, The Society of Equals

“Equality was thus conceived in terms of the relative position of individuals, the rules governing their interactions,”
― Pierre Rosanvallon, The Society of Equals

“in the American and French Revolutions. Equality was then understood primarily as a relation, as a way of making a society, of producing and living in common.”
― Pierre Rosanvallon, The Society of Equals

“Equality has become a sort of remote deity, which is routinely worshipped but has ceased to inspire any living faith.”
― Pierre Rosanvallon, The Society of Equals

“there is a global rejection of society as it presently exists together with acceptance of the mechanisms that produce that society. De facto inequalities are rejected, but the mechanisms that generate inequality in general are implicitly recognized.”
― Pierre Rosanvallon, The Society of Equals

“Today, it seems as though inequality is implicitly tolerated,”
― Pierre Rosanvallon, The Society of Equals