Egalitarianism Quotes

21 quotes by 17 authors

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
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
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
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
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
The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty. — James Burnham
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. — Henry Miller
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
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
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

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