by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
“Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
“[Some people] have a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. I believe that it is easier to establish an absolute and despotic...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Philosophers, Quotes
“All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.” Courtesy of liberty-tree.com
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 5, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by...
