Inequality

(241 votes)   My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, ''There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little.''

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(229 votes)   The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.

Cecil F. Alexander

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(170 votes)   There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist

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(112 votes)   We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

Andrew Carnegie
1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist

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(80 votes)   So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(74 votes)   The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

Jacquetta Hawkes

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(68 votes)   However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social Philosopher

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(68 votes)   When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?

John Ball
?-1381, British Priest, Social Agitator

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(64 votes)   No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Henry P. Fairchild
American Sociologist

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(63 votes)   I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

Richard Rumbold
1622-1685, British Rebel

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(59 votes)   People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.

Leo XIII
1810-1903, Pope from 1878 to 1903

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