Egalitarianism Quotes

• Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Real, Sacrifice, Equality

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• The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

  Camille Paglia

  Beautiful, Block, Equality

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• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  B. Carroll Reece

  America, Doubt, Followers

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• La peor forma de desigualdad es intentar igualar cosas desiguales.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Equality, Deep Thought

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• Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Ideas, Shapes, Form

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.217, Transaction Publishers

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• Quería una sociedad racialmente justa. Quería acabar con las guerras. Quería acabar con la supremacía blanca. Quería crear un mundo basado en el igualitarismo, en compartir, en la justicia racial.

  Bill Ayers

  War, White, Justice

  "Entrevista en The Sunday Rumpus: Bill Ayers". Entrevista con Rachel DeWoskin, therumpus.net. 1 de diciembre de 2013.

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• Un sistema educativo igualitario se opone necesariamente a la meritocracia y a la recompensa por los logros. Se opone inevitablemente a los procedimientos que puedan revelar diferentes niveles de rendimiento.

  Robert Bork

  Educational, Achievement, Levels

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• Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

  Clay Shirky

  Moving, Past, Size

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.63, Penguin

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• The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the 'competition' between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of 'exploitation' for which you have damned the strong.

  Ayn Rand

  Strong, Men, Pyramids

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

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• Una buena educación se dedicaría a fomentar y refinar el amor por lo bello, pero un moralismo patológicamente equivocado convierte en cambio ese anhelo en un pecado contra el elevado objetivo de hacer que todos se sientan bien, de superar la naturaleza en nombre de la igualdad. ... El amor a lo bello puede ser el último y mejor sacrificio para el igualitarismo radical.

  Allan Bloom

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Names

  Allan David Bloom (1993). “Love and Friendship”

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• In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Differences, Order

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.181, Counterpoint

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• The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Equality, Imagination, Principles

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). "La democracia en América"

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• This is the deal: we are happy to single out people as superior just as long as they don't accept the description themselves. We want heroes and idols but we also want egalitarianism and that requires proclamations of humility from our Gods.

  Julian Baggini

  Hero, Humility, Idols

  "'I feel so humble' - the common cry of heroes and villains" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2013.

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• The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

  James Burnham

  Hunger And Poverty, Economic, Reduction

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• También hay dos cristianismos en el mundo de hoy. Hay (1) el cristianismo del Nuevo Testamento, y hay (2) el cristianismo de la acomodación al modernismo, el igualitarismo, la amabilidad, el naturalismo, la psicología pop, el humanismo secular, el relativismo, el subjetivismo, el individualismo, el racionalismo de la "Ilustración" o el irracionalismo postmoderno. Los nuevos conversos al primer cristianismo no dejan de asombrarse y escandalizarse al comprobar que muchos de sus clérigos están enamorados del segundo y temerosos del primero.

  Peter Kreeft

  Two, Psychology, Enlightenment

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• The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise . . . Egalitarianism is sinful; it's also cowardly.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Believe, People, Messages

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• It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

  Henry Miller

  Unique, Vices, Levels

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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• Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... "relationship"? The term "relationship" ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.

  Allan Bloom

  Attachment, Degrees, Different

  Allan David Bloom (1993). “Love and Friendship”

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• Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialised if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented; if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Mean, Principles, Abiding

  Kwame Nkrumah (1966). “Two myths”

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• Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing.

  Leonard Leer

  Labels, Nazism, Different

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• Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.

  Brian Cox

  Fall, Theatre, Cinema

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Es mejor que algunos sean infelices a que ninguno sea feliz, lo que ocurriría en un estado general de igualdad.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Equality, Political

  Citado en James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entrada del 7 de abril de 1776)

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• Dado que la naturaleza no dota a todos los hombres de la misma belleza ni de la misma inteligencia, y que la facultad de la volición lleva a los hombres a tomar decisiones diferentes, los igualitaristas proponen abolir la "injusticia" de la naturaleza y de la volición, y establecer la igualdad universal de hecho, desafiando los hechos. No es la igualdad ante la ley lo que buscan, sino la desigualdad: el establecimiento de una pirámide social invertida, con una nueva aristocracia en la cima: la aristocracia del no-valor.

  Ayn Rand

  Igualdad, Hombres, Derecho

  Ayn Rand (1999). "El retorno de lo primitivo: The Anti-Industrial Revolution", p.119, Penguin

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• La condición principal o, de hecho, la única que se requiere para tener éxito en la centralización del poder supremo en una comunidad democrática es amar la igualdad o conseguir que los hombres crean que la amas. Así, la ciencia del despotismo, antaño tan compleja, se ha simplificado y reducido, por así decirlo, a un solo principio.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Creer, Hombres, Orden

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). "La democracia en América"

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• Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the inventor, the innovator, the exceptional man creates something new and insures continuous progress; the others emulate his work or merely improve their own lot by benefiting from his creativity.

  Thomas Steven Molnar

  Passion, Creativity, Men

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