Thomas Hobbes Quotes

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good.

No one enjoys being equal.

Everybody is important. Everybody has something to give.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

If you think all men are created equal, you haven't seen Bo Diddley in the shower.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls.

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

... there shall be no differences save by merit of character, by merit of ability, by merit of service to country. Those are the true tests of the value of any man or woman, white or coloured ...

Equal doesn't mean identical.

Genius draws no color line.

Equality lies only in human moral dignity.

Value can mean a price. Value can mean exclusivity. Value can mean, 'I can't get it anywhere else, and this is really something I want.'

Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

I'm going to get paid what I deserve off of what I bring to the table.

Valuable people are undervalued.

Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it.

The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be.

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.

No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.

In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there's something about the scarcity that makes it all the more valuable.