Dennis Prager Quotes

The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for using their endowments in ways that help the less fortunate as well.

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

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

I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.

In our insistence upon equality of opportunity has our system advanced beyond all the world.

Our goal is a classless society.

We are a nation without classes or special privileges.

We are looking forward to a non-racial, just and egalitarian society in which color, creed and race shall form no point of reference.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration.

I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life.

There should be no segregation. Everyone should be united, and everyone should be seen as equals.

We want an honest and casteless politics.

I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Ain't a soul on the planet that's better than another.

Turtle makes all men equal.

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

Those who attempt to level never equalize