Quotes About Equality

Si quiere perdurar, el futuro líder industrial debe considerarse a sí mismo como un oficial cuasi-público, cuyo deber es manejar su empresa de tal manera que no atente contra los intereses de ningún individuo o grupo de individuos. La explotación de los trabajadores es cosa del pasado. Esperamos que el hombre que aspira al liderazgo en el campo de los negocios, la industria y el trabajo recuerde esto.

Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him the ladder by which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to do so.

May one refuse to adapt one's self to the LAW OF ECONOMICS?  Certainly! This is a free country, where all men are born with equal rights, including the privilege of ignoring the LAW OF ECONOMICS. What happens then? Well, nothing happens until large numbers of men join forces for the avowed purpose of ignoring the law, and taking what they want by force.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away from a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

It is always convenient to invoke universalism when you are in the majority.

If you lose we will be equals and stay friends forever, and if you win you'll take my precious blue flower as a prize and we stay friends forever. How lucky you are!

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.

True equality is equality in probability. and Skin in the game prevents systems from rotting.

All pieces of information are not equal in importance.

you may be committing an injustice to others by favoring him.

The way to make society more equal is by forcing (through skin in the game) the rich to be subjected to the risk of exiting from the 1 percent.

People can only be social friends if they don't try to upstage or outsmart one another.

Effectively, there is no democracy without such an unconditional symmetry in the rights to express yourself, and the gravest threat is the slippery slope in the attempts to limit speech on grounds that some of it may hurt some people's feelings.

jealousy is to be found within the same art, talent, and condition.*10

qué humanista no desea minimizar la discrepancia entre los seres humanos?

Decentralization reduces large structural asymmetries.

In 1965, as Ralph Gleason has reported, when Martin Luther King's march on Selma, Alabama, was brutally attacked by local and state constabulary, Louis Armstrong, then in Copenhagen, said after watching the carnage on television, They would beat Jesus if he was black and marched.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

If differences are accepted, self-esteem can grow.

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is in being who they are, not in being better than someone else.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women

Societatea are un caracter despotic; e în stare s? refuze cuiva cea mai elementar? dreptate cât timp este cerut? cu prea mare îndârjire, ca un drept; dar aproape la fel de des acord? mai mult decât dreptate - aÈ™a cum le place despoÈ›ilor - când se face apel la generozitatea ei.