If all people were equal, the world could not go on; nobody would serve another, and there would be no peace.
 Martin Luther, Table Talk (1566). copy citation

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Author Martin Luther
Source Table Talk
Topic peace world
Date 1566
Language English
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Note Translated by William Hazlitt
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Context

“The discourse turning among the great differences amongst the learned, Luther said: God has very finely distributed his gifts, so that the learned serve the unlearned, and the unlearned humble themselves before the learned, in what is needful for them. If all people were equal, the world could not go on; nobody would serve another, and there would be no peace. The peacock complained because he had not the nightingale’s voice. God, with apparent inequality, has instituted the greatest equality; one man, who has greater gifts than another, is proud and haughty, and seeks to rule and domineer over others, and condemns them.” source