William Gilbert Quotes

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.

I look like everyone.

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

I kind of look like every other girl, walking around.

I was just another girl.

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

I never felt any different from anyone else though.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

People are not recognisable, but places have to be recognisable.

Every society naturally divides itself into classes. The author of nature has bestowed on some greater capacities than on others--birth, education, talents and wealth, create distinctions among men as visible and of as much influence as titles, stars and garters. In every society, men of this class will command a superior degree of respect--and if the government is so constituted as to admit but few to exercise the powers of it, it will, according to the natural course of things, be in their hands.

The intelligent quest is for the free society with equality of opportunity. The quest for equality of result is the path to the widest equality of all: despotism.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else

Principles which united American liberals for generations, now divide me from some who seek equality of result and who sanction the preferences imposed by government to attain it.

Elect me for what I am, not for what I was born.

As to what we call the masses and the common men—there are no common men. All men are at last of a size.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.