The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty. — James Burnham 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
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
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
Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“To be human, is to act human, and to act human, is to stand up to all forms of inhumanity.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both… — Camille Paglia 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
“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
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
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
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
Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment. — Allan Bloom 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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 ecstatic vision and social program sought to rebuild a society upward from its grass roots but on principles of religious and… — John Dominic Crossan 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Pilgrim of the heart, oneness in our vein - love is the revolution, Human is the name.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
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