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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.
Fairness is not about statistical equality.
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.
You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.
Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.
Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.
It's Unfair to be fair
Because Life is unfair
All men are created unequal.
Inequality is on the rise.
Equity is often difficult to judge, and still more difficult to achieve,
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
There can never be equality, so long the heavens have decided together with the darkness in the heart of men, such idealistic desire will never come to fruition.
Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.
Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
It is not the case that we are born equal and that the conditions of life make our lives unequal, it is the opposite, we are born unequal, and the conditions of life make our lives more equal.
Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.
We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
Not being treated as equal IS oppression
The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
Separation is the first cause of inequality.
Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.
Inequality was the price of civilization.
The eye of true equality often seems to have some degree of disrespect for the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty to the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty, although in reality, it's simply irrespectiveness.
No one enjoys being equal.
Equality ... is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.
Fairness isn't getting what everyone else gets. Fairness is getting what you need.
The United States, despite an active ideology that preaches equality, in fact has the most unequal distribution of wealth of any industrialized nation (Philips, 1988). The top one percent of the population controls over 70 percent of the wealth, and the top 5 percent control over 90 percent.9
If people aren't equal, where would you fit in?
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.
I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.
Equality is humanity.
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.
God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.
Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher.
When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.
Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.
The spirit of rebellion can exist only in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The
Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.
To give a thing to one who is not fit for it and not to give a thing to one who is fit for it is equally oppression.
Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler
a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.
Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
Present injustices exist not so much because simple individuals are acting in bad faith or lacking in charity, but because huge, impersonal systems (that seem beyond the control of the individuals acting within them) disprivilege some even as they unduly privilege others.
Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.
There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
The disparities of income and wealth in the world today are an affront to any reflective person.
If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
The world is an inherently unfair place.
Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity
It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
Being equal does not mean being the same.
The history of inequality is shaped by the way economic, social, and political actors view what is just and what is not, as well as by the relative power of those actors and the collective choices that result. It is the joint product of all relevant actors combined.
I firmly believe that the inequity [in society] is enormous. The people have the feeling that you are allowed to do anything if you are rich. But if you're poor, you have to pay. We [Europeans] have to counter this.
Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.
The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."
Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.
I thought equality was non-negotiable.
Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within.
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.
I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.
The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.
A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.
Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.
In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.
Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.
Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth;
it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy
that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.
Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.
Equality is a mortuary word.
Patriarchy 101 would have you believe otherwise, but you know - that's just not true. Those inequalities are recipes for resentment. And, yes, the formula isn't perfect yet. We don't all have that. But we're trying.
There's no such thing as equality. No two people are the same. You will not have the same clothes.
In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.
Equity, after all, does not mean simply equal funding. Equal funding for unequal needs is not equality.
There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).
Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
Modern redistribution is built around a logic of rights and a principle of equal access to a certain number of goods deemed to be fundamental.
Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.
People would rather be equal thank free.
Power - often military power - was at the origin of these inequities.
Equality has no place for genius.
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.