Geddy Lee Quotes

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Jealousies and rivalries have been my themes, and checks and balances as their antidotes, till I am ashamed to repeat the words.

The true meaning of the word ‘Equality’ is—“No one better off than I am."

I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

My life won't have full quality until we achieve equality for all.

So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."

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.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

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

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

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

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.