Egalitarian Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“The utopian desire for an egalitarian society cannot, however, have sprung from any other motive than that of an inability to come to terms…

— Helmut Schoeck

“People are egalitarian by nature, and unequal societies can never function well due to resentment and dissatisfaction. But”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Few things are more dangerous to an egalitarian ideal than the concept of a chosen people.”

— Erika Johansen

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

— Robert Stacy McCain

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.

— Henry Hazlitt

“the egalitarian lifestyles of hunter-gatherers exist because the individuals care a lot about status. Individuals in these societies end up roughly equal because everyone…

— Paul Bloom

“Envy is, in a sense, an intentional feeling that paradoxically undermines its own intentionality.”

— Sianne Ngai

“Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy.”

— Elizabeth Winder

“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more…

— Edmund Burke

“The perfect society to which we aspire in theory may become a powerful enemy of the good society we can become in fact.”

— Mark Sagoff

“Orwell. Wrote a book that said that a totalitarian society sustains itself by the basic selfishness of everybody. When the chips were down, his…

— Jack L. Chalker

“I am convinced that those societies which live without government enjoy in their gen'l mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson