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Inequality Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to…
- There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends…
- However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him…
- It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and…
More Inequality Quotes
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy. — Michelle Bachelet
- Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot
- The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever. — Gerry Adams
- The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our… — Jane Addams
- By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to… — Theodore Bikel
- The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Prolonged endurance tames the bold. — Lord Byron
- A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. — Thomas Carlyle
- Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time,… — Thomas Carlyle
- Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton