Quotes About Inequality

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

Nothing is so unequal as equality.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

Equality is a mortuary word.

No one enjoys being equal.

In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.

There are social democrats and others who are marching more in the direction of equality, whether you call them socialists or communists... Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

Men are naturally unequal. They are unequal members of one family, in which one can be brilliant, another mediocre, and another an imbecile. Hereditary substance is a mystery.

Equality has no place for genius.