David Allan Coe Quotes

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

No one enjoys being equal.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

All men are equal before God, but all men are not equal before men because the differences are obvious.

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

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.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Women to govern men, slaves freemen, are much in the same degree; all being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

All men are created unequal.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

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

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.