The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King Copy Share Image
The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty. — James Burnham Copy Share Image
“Pilgrim of the heart, oneness in our vein - love is the revolution, Human is the name.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A lot of the differences between people have biologic underpinnings. Now, we have a dogma of egalitarianism. Everyone's the same. — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
“My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in common, when there shall… — John Ball Copy Share Image
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige,… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which,… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
“the egalitarian lifestyles of hunter-gatherers exist because the individuals care a lot about status. Individuals in these societies end up roughly equal… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no… — B. Carroll Reece Copy Share Image
While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Sweden had paternity-leave policies in place for years but found that few men were taking advantage of the benefit. While women felt… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a precursor or catalyst. Universalistic egalitarianism, from which sprang… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
“Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively,… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“Originated by the green leading-edge in academia, this aperspectival madness of “no truth” leapt out of the universities, and morphed into an… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“The third group called to silence is women. This group is not composed of all women all the time but rather of… — Alan G. Padgett Copy Share Image
“When you can’t block people’s access to food and shelter, and you can’t stop them from leaving, how can you control them?… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Disregarding the value of religion and believing in egalitarianism are two misconceptions that cause America much trouble today. — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
“For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“Institutionalized sharing of resources and sexuality spreads and minimizes risk, assures food won’t be wasted in a world without refrigeration, eliminates the… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
![“That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in [Louis] Brandeis, continues through the New Deal, but then it sort of peters out in the '60s because progressives in particular…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/558/jeffrey-rosen-13180_american-history_that-strain-of-anti-monopoly-crusading-e_1868677.jpg)
