David Mamet Quotes

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

… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Equality is a monster.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

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

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.

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

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

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.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

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

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

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

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

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.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

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

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

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