Quotes About Leveling

I married up several times. And then across once or twice. And then beneath me. I never quite found the right level somehow. Perhaps I should have married diagonally or in a slightly curved direction.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

The only real equality is in the cemetery

As economist Lawrence Kudlow puts it, "Obama comes from a long line of liberals whose guiding star is the equality of result, i.e., income leveling, rather than the equality of opportunity, which is the heart of free-market capitalism.

In the larger scheme of things, the modern complaint against state intervention echoes the old English fear of social leveling, which was said to encourage the unproductive. In its later incarnation, government assistance is said to undermine the American dream. Wait. Undermine whose American dream?

Leveling is the barbarian's substitute for order.