EQUALITY QUOTES IV

quotations about equality

Equality lies only in human moral dignity.... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

The Brothers Karamazov


Invisible hand clutching at the throat
Statistical sham an emperor's rags it's sad it's so sad
Because equality's the only plea green fields are burning
The reef's on fire and bellies are swollen they're hurting
A willing victim's I don't think so
We won't be pinned against the wall
There is no slogan that can feed you

MIDNIGHT OIL

"Tone Poem", Capricornia


How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril. We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment or else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy which this Assembly has so laboriously built up.

BHIMRAO RAMJI AMBEDKAR

Writings and Speeches


Equality is a perpetual threat to the status quo.

ROBERT TSAI

Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation


The equalization of fortunes may have some slight tendency to stifle animosity and to prevent dissension. But its effect is always inconsiderable, and often doubtful; since those who think themselves entitled to superiority will not patiently brook equality.

ARISTOTLE

Politics


A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

MILTON FRIEDMAN

Free to Choose


Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

H. L. MENCKEN

"H. L. Mencken: His Last Gibes and Brickbats", Life Magazine, Feb. 20, 1956


Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

ERICH FROMM

The Art of Loving