Inequality Quote by Laurence J. Peter

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

— Aristotle

“Plato summarizes his reply to equalitarianism in the formula: ‘Equal treatment of unequals must beget inequity’20; and this was developed by Aristotle into the…

— Karl R. Popper

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

— Felix Frankfurter

“...when equality is given to unequal things, the resultant will be unequal...”

— Plato

“But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality.”

— Matthew Desmond

The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why we are hanging around with inequality concept every day, it is like comparing water with the bread.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.   —Aristotle”

— Greg Iles

Plato in his dialogue The Phaedo says that whereas sticks and stones are both equal and unequal, (so maybe what that means is that…

— Peter Adamson

“Equality, as understood by the American Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and retain the…

— Mark R. Levin

“I conceive two species of inequality among men; one which I call natural, or physical inequality, because it is established by nature, and consists…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and…

— Thomas Paine