Henry Becque Quotes

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.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

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

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

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

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

No one enjoys being equal.

How many, even of the better sort, would choose to be slaves to those above them, provided they might exercise an arbitrary and tyrannical rule over all below them?

I think there's always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people can't feel that they have any hero qualities unless there's someone beneath them.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

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

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

I don't like being treated differently.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

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

I want nothing to do with privilege.

I'll take discrimination if it's in my favor!

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.