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“I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.”

Law Order Found Wealth Revolution Birth Destruction Chaos Alternatives Merit Anarchy Regimes Monarchy Feudalism Decrepit

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.”

Causes Birth Fortune Merit Lofty

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”

Source: Golden Hours with Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.”

People Thinking World Mean Light Mistake Company Birth Regard Merit Consideration Endeavor

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.”

Men Judging Birth Standards Deeds Accidents Merit I've Learned

Author:Sarah Josepha Hale

“When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?”

Believe Wanted Father My Own Failing Willing Birth Merit Jockeys

Author:Mavis Leno

“Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.”

Mind Body Birth Victim Property Mediums Merit Faculty Unfortunate Hereditary Locomotives

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.”

Self Birth Eternal Charity Western Chains Defined Broke Merit Productive Stations Satisfying Behalf Boundless Western Society

Author:Ibn Warraq

“Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the liberation of mind by loving-kindness. The liberation of mind by loving-kindness surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant.”

Mind Kindness Birth Equal Shining Brilliant Liberation Merit Productive Loving Kindness

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.”

Fine Birth Merit Ancestor Fine Things

Author:Plutarch