Evan Esar Quotes

No one enjoys being equal.

All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

All men are created equal in one respect, at least, and that is their desire to be unequal.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

I think everyone has been different once in their life.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

Nobody's got it made. Nobody, no matter what they look like.

What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

We in America – and men across the earth – have trapped ourselves with that word equality, which is inapplicable to the genus man. I wish we would forget it. Stop its use in our country: Let the communists have it. It isn’t fit for men who fling their dreams across the skies. It is fit only for a leveling down of mankind.

If all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Everyone has their own process.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.

Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.