Aldous Huxley Quotes

Equality ... is the result of human organization.... We are not born 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.

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

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

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

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of the body and mind, as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

All men therefore among themselves are by nature equal; the inequality we now discern, hath its spring from the Civil Law.

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.

Equality lies only in human moral dignity.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

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

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

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

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

When security and equality are in conflict, it will not do to hesitate a moment. Equality must yield.

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

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

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.