What a total dipstick! This old world has staggered onwards and upwards shouldering its vices and virtues, concepts of which, incidentally, change from time to time. And I, for one, do not "need equality". In fact I hate it. For once I will agree with the French: Vive la difference!
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, French for "Liberty, equality, fraternity, the national motto of France. I think the French believe in equality AND support difference!
No, Grama, it was the motto of the French revolution which was blown to pieces on the field at Waterloo by an English Duke and a Prussian Prince - and good riddance to it.
Well, given the number of revolutions since the original plus a dictatorship and Nazi collaboration, to say nothing of the perpetual corruption at the highest level, there doesn't seem to have been too much in the way of 'liberté, égalité and fraternité'. It's just one of those high-minded phrases intended to foll the fools - a bit like 'the Land of the Free'!
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What a total dipstick! This old world has staggered onwards and upwards shouldering its vices and virtues, concepts of which, incidentally, change from time to time. And I, for one, do not "need equality". In fact I hate it. For once I will agree with the French: Vive la difference!
ReplyDeleteSpoken like a white male heterosexual. It's easy to discount the value of equality when you're not the one being treated unequally.
ReplyDeleteLiberté, égalité, fraternité, French for "Liberty, equality, fraternity, the national motto of France. I think the French believe in equality AND support difference!
ReplyDeleteNo, Grama, it was the motto of the French revolution which was blown to pieces on the field at Waterloo by an English Duke and a Prussian Prince - and good riddance to it.
ReplyDeleteWrong. It is still the French motto.
DeleteWell, given the number of revolutions since the original plus a dictatorship and Nazi collaboration, to say nothing of the perpetual corruption at the highest level, there doesn't seem to have been too much in the way of 'liberté, égalité and fraternité'. It's just one of those high-minded phrases intended to foll the fools - a bit like 'the Land of the Free'!
ReplyDeleteDavid Duff, you talk a lot, but say nothing.
ReplyDeleteCheck your privilege.