“ The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
- 447
“ The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority. ”
- Jacquetta Hawkes- Copy
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“ Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. ”
- Pierre Joseph Proudhon- Copy
- 3.8K
“ An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. ”
- Tarja Halonen- Copy
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“ A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. ”
- Henry P. Fairchild- Copy
- 2.2K
“ If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom would have a lot more. ”
- Chris Martin- Copy
- 1.9K
“ My grandma used to say, "There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.". ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
- 117
“ So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
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“ True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world. ”
- Felix E. Schelling- Copy
- 176
“ We accept and welcome… as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
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“ The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
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“ People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community. ”
- Leo XIII- Copy
- 660
“ However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
- 617
“ Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
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“ The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate. ”
- Cecil F. Alexander- Copy
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“ How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak? ”
- Isabel Allende- Copy
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“ It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
- 204
“ It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. ”
- Felix Frankfurter- Copy
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“ I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden. ”
- Richard Rumbold- Copy
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“ There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Sex — the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator. ”
- Enid Bagnold- Copy
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“ That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. ”
- Lester Maddox- Copy
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“ A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. ”
- Pierre Joseph Proudhon- Copy
- 694
“ It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
- 559
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