Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-11-24 Nov 24, 2023We clamour for equality chiefly in areas where we cannot ourselves hope to obtain excellence.~ Eric HofferThe defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.~ Henry BecqueA society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.~ Milton Friedman Nov 23, 2023Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.~ Eric HofferAll animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others.~ George OrwellLegislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nov 22, 2023Democracy…is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.~ PlatoIt is the greatest inequality to try to make unequal things equal.~ AristotleProsperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway, you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.~ Marios Vargas Llosa Nov 21, 2023Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.~ Alexis de TocquevilleIn republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.~ Charles-Louis de SecondatPerhaps I can summarise it best by saying this -- Nations that have pursued equality, like the Iron Curtain countries, I think have finished up with neither equality, nor liberty. Nations, which like us, in the past have pursued liberty, as a fundamental objective, extending it to all, have finished up with liberty, human dignity, and far fewer inequalities than other people.~ Margaret Thatcher Nov 20, 2023In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.~ Charles de MontesquieuMen being by nature all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent which is done by agreeing with other men, to join and unite into a community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living in a secure enjoyment of their properties.~ John LockeWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print