Equality

Why do we save the larger number? Because we do give equal weight to saving each. Each counts for one. That is why more count for more.

Derek Parfit, Innumerate ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 7, no. 4, 1978, pp. 285–301, p. 301

Throghout the modern world, equality is generally prescribed, yet inequality is generally practiced.

James S. Fishkin, Justice, equal opportunity and the family, New Haven, [Conn.], 1983, p. 47