Jeremy Bentham Quotes

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

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

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.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. [In the post-communist era.]

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

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

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.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

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

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

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

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

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.

In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

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

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

I am no leveller; I look upon an artificial equality as equally pernicious with a factitious aristocracy; both depressing the energies and checking the enterprise of a nation.