An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
Inequality Quotes
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing on others, he has a right to do for himself… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.
Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man – in temperament, character, and capacity – and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so.
No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different […]
All men are created unequal.
All sentient beings are created unequal. The best society provides each with equal opportunity to float at his own level.
Why, Sir, I reconcile my principles very well, because mankind are happier in a state of inequality and insubordination. – All intellectual improvement arises from leisure; all leisure arises from one working for another.
