Egalitarianism Quotes
21 quotes by 17 authors
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
— Aristotle
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Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and…
— Max Horkheimer
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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences,…
— Wendell Berry
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The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.
— James Burnham
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The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms…
— Ayn Rand
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The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving…
— Ayn Rand
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Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the inventor,…
— Thomas Steven Molnar
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Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the…
— Ayn Rand
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While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which they themselves are…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by…
— Murray Rothbard
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There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning. It's elitism masquerading…
— Camille Paglia
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it…
— B. Carroll Reece
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
— Henry Miller
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This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want…
— Julian Baggini
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Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary.…
— Camille Paglia
Who Wrote These Egalitarianism Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 21 Egalitarianism Quotes as follows: