To do what is right is not to avoid blame and seek praise.

If killing one man is unrighteous and a capital offence, then by the same logic killing ten is tenfold unrighteous and ten capital offences; killing a hundred is a hundredfold unrighteous and a hundred capital offences.

Care for one another impartially; benefit one another in mutual exchange.

The legal subordination of one sex to another is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

-- John Stuart Mill

Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world.

-- René Descartes

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

-- John Locke

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

-- Thomas Jefferson

The Supreme Being has not decreed monarchy, nor aristocracy, nor wealth, nor slavery. He has decreed equality.

-- Maximilien Robespierre