Mary Douglas Quotes

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

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

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.

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

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

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

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.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

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

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

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?

Equality is a monster.

... all good Americans, while verbally asking for nothing but equal rights, ... interpret the phrase so that equal rights become equivalent to special rights.

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

For Americans the doctrine of universal equality is a doctrine of death …

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.

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.

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

You can’t have two wrongs make one civil right.

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.

Fiddler is keenly aware that justice and law don't necessarily equate.