Jeremy Bentham Quotes

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

The prime culprit in causing contemporary social inequality seems to be merit.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

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.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

Equality is a monster.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

We hold the view that all men are created equal." Now, what did they mean by that? Did they mean, my friends, to say that all men were created equal and that that meant that any one man was born to inherit $10 billion and that another child was to be born to inherit nothing? Did that mean, my friends, that someone would come into this world without having had an opportunity, of course, to have hit one lick of work, should be born with more than it and all of its children and children's children could every dispose of, but that another one would have to be born into a life of starvation?

I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

… injustice breeds injustice