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
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I was stupid, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am more stupid, so I am changing the world.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful crosscurrents to illiberalism in American life is a broad-minded and democratic egalitarianism. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
“The heart of Christ is not only the heart of a man but has in it also the tenderness and gentleness of… — A.B. Simpson Copy Share Image
Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two… — Thomas Steven Molnar Copy Share Image
The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“Egalitarian and relativistic sentiments find steady support among ever new generations of adolescents. Owing to their still incomplete mental development, juveniles, especially… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is… — Pierre Clastres Copy Share Image
The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Christian equality can be described as equity, or even-handedness. Egalitarianism, in contrast, demands sameness, or equality of outcome. These two visions of… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“Among those ways and thoughts of God, then, is the principle of accommodation. God works within human limitations - both individual and… — John G. Stackhouse Jr Copy Share Image
“If all human beings in a population either are declared equal in their native strengths and rights, or else are persuaded to… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
