Egalitarian Quotes
38 quotes by 37 authors
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An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of…
— Robert Bork
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Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a…
— Mia Freedman
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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
— Florence King
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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other. Each family is a circle,…
— Black Elk
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I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly — and with…
— Kay Ryan
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We need to be clear that there is no such thing as giving up one's privilege to be 'outside' the system. ONE IS ALWAYS IN…
— Harry Brod
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs…
— Russell Kirk
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For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society
— Francis Fukuyama
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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For women…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot…
— Aaron Wildavsky
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Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.
— Murray Rothbard
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We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements…
— Aruna Roy
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It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian,…
— Greg Bear
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We have a lot to learn from [bonobos], because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not confined…
— Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
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If the egalitarian wishes to realise his ideal, given the unpromising nature of his material, he might consider rendering all persons equally dead, for perhaps…
— D. Michael Quinn
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Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
— Peter Kreeft
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The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring…
— Michael Sandel
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The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor…
— Robert Agostinelli
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