John C. Maxwell Quotes

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

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

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life. Men adjust themselves to their land; they create their own laws of being; their notions of right and wrong.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

… injustice breeds injustice

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

The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.

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.

Not many people appear to advocate—although most a quite prepared to tolerate—a society where some people are worth less than others.

… the term "equality" as applied in Mexico has a very restricted meaning in comparison with the meaning given it in other parts of the world. In Mexico it means that all persons, regardless of learning, preparation or ethics, are equally qualified for governmental positions.

The more we examine the actual course of affairs, the more we are amazed at the unnecessary suffering that has been inflicted upon the people. No generalities about natural law or inevitable development can blind us to the fact, that the progress in which we believe has been won at the expense of much injustice and wrong, which was not inevitable.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has made nothing equal; her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

I look at the Supreme Court and know why Jesus wept.

Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.

We can't fix the real problems if we only cauterize and don't treat the roots of evil.

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.

There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families.

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

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Washington, D.C., puts enormous burdens on people who, at the end of the day, are just humans.

On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed.