Economic inequality Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

— Mike Rosen

“Fear, anxiety, the terror of mortality—it must be a drag being right-wing. But despite that, in a multinational study, rightists were happier than leftists.42…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.”

— Dennis Prager

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in…

— Criss Jami

It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to…

— Mary Ann Glendon

“Furthermore, when conservatives attack the left, they now usually frame their arguments in the language of equality—for example, they often argue that affirmative action…

— George Hawley

“Under liberalism, went a famous quip, everyone is free to starve. Even worse, by encouraging people to view themselves as isolated individuals, liberalism separates…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity.

— Rush Limbaugh

The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

— Dave Rubin

“If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that he considered Liberalism more…

— Leo Tolstoy

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's…

— Robert Reich