Equality Quote by Karl Polanyi

“Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society is the end for which Providence has prepared man.”

— Russell Kirk

“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that behind the…

— Yuval Levin

“The idea of forcing every thing to an artificial equality has something, at first view, very captivating in it,” Burke writes. “It has all…

— Yuval Levin

“Utopias of equality are biologically doomed[.]”

— Will Durant

“Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle,” Burke writes.”

— Yuval Levin

“[They] may have for instance taken the view of Edmund Burke, who in the 18th century made the central conservative insight; that a culture…

— Douglas Murray

“What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?”

— Henry James

“The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited all.”

— Joan Robinson

“The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between…

— Niall Ferguson

“How could I insist on equality when I was unwilling to do what life demanded to be equal?”

— Charlie Courtland

“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”

— John Locke

“As Lasch understood, for progressive politics anti-moral transgression has always been a bargain with the devil, because the case for equality is essentially a…

— Angela Nagle