Unequal Quotes

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Isn`t the rationale, fundamentally, for democracy, that we`re going to get people of unequal abilities to ultimately make very important decisions?

And when I look around America today I feel we`re oversaturated with goods. Like most of western Christian civilization, we feel it`s fine if we`re comfortable and, if the rest of the world isn`t, then that`s their problem. We`re not generous. And the idea of paying some chief executive $40 million a year is just obscene. I don`t deny it`s nice to have silk sheets or whatever, but we live in a deeply unequal society and our luxury is both excessive and wasteful.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

R.C. Hickman`s work poignantly captures the social history of African Americans in a period of unequal treatment and dangerous conditions. TXU Energy is proud to celebrate Black History Month by showcasing this historical exhibit for our Dallas community.

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.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

I don`t care if the Bible says it. It`s wrong. It`s wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual preference, of sexual orientation. It`s wrong to say that women are unequal, if the Bible says so. It`s wrong to say that Blacks are unequal even if the Hammite myth supports it or suggests it. The Bible is often wrong. It is often right. Of course, it is often brilliantly right.