Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Power over men is itself a satisfaction, besides providing opportunity to better one's circumstances with a minimum of exertion. Hence, the lust for power increases with its enjoyment and restraint is added to restraint. The government instituted to prevent men from transgressing one another's equal rights thus tends to become a transgressor of the rights of all. The injustice is far more oppressive than anyone man can do unto another, and the interests of freedom can be served only by restraint of government.

The Equality of the Citizens consists in this; that they should all be subject to the same Laws.

The spirit, the intent, the purpose of our Constitution is to secure equal and exact justice for all men.

Our goal is a classless society.

You shall have one law for the stranger and citizen alike.

I desire to secure every privilege and every right to every citizen in the United States…. I understand the amendment ... to authorize Congress to establish uniform laws throughout the United States upon the subject named, the protection of life, liberty, and property. I am unwilling that Congress shall have any such power

The proposed 14th Amendment allows Congress to correct the unjust legislation of the States, so far that the law which operates upon one man shall operate equally upon all.

Its whole effect is not to confer or regulate rights, but to require that whatever of these enumerated rights and obligations are imposed by State laws shall ... be without distinction based on race.

Whatever rights as to each of these enumerated civil (not political) matters the State may confer upon one race ... shall be held by all races in equality … It secures … equality of protection in those enumerated civil rights which the States may deem proper to confer upon any races.

What is good enough for Scotland is good enough for England. Fairness demands no less.

I've come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

I want to be crystal clear that everyone has an equal stake in our society and in the future of our country. That is what I believe, and it is what I have always believed.

I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.

Equality, equality, equality. I'm all about equality, that's the main thing and the only thing I'm about.

Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.

All people are different. That's why everybody should be treated the same.

Turtle makes all men equal.

Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.

If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.

Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.

Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.