Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-11-27 Nov 27, 2023Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.~ Alexis de TocquevilleThe idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.~ David ReismanThose who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.~ Eric Hoffer 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print