When inequality is the general rule in society, the greatest inequalities attract no attention. When everything is more or less level, the slightest variation is noticed. Hence the more equal men are, the more insatiable will be their longing for equality.
Inequality Quotes
You can’t have all chiefs, you’ve got to have Indians too.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair. It’s very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality.
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy can ever plane them down to a level.
Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing on others, he has a right to do for himself… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.
Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man – in temperament, character, and capacity – and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so.
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different […]
