Jim Goad Quotes

Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.

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

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

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

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality.

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

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

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

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

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

… in a republic where all are free and equal--prosperity and position constitute rank.

Binaries, whether it's 'man' or 'woman,' or 'black' and 'white,' were created to separate us. So without binary, there is only 'us,' which makes us all equal.

My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It also includes the recognition of the value of democracy. When we speak about social justice, it means that freedom should be used not only in the interest of profit but also in the interest of the advancement of the people who create all values.

Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They had heard only that there were such, and knew that they must be wrong.

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.

As far as male and female are concerned, difference is a biological fact, whereas equality is a political, ethical and social concept. No rule of nature or of social organization says that the sexes have to be the same or do the same things in order to be social, political and economic equals.

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.

Justice is Equality...but equality of what?