Hitopadesa Quotes

... there shall be no differences save by merit of character, by merit of ability, by merit of service to country. Those are the true tests of the value of any man or woman, white or coloured ...

If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

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.

I'm tired of demographic appeal being more important than talent. I want to fight against that.

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

I want to see genuine talent rewarded.

I truly don't know why the boys are getting all the votes - it could be because they are really amazing, and that's all there is to it. They're really, really good and every single boy deserves to be in the competition right now, and so do the two girls.

To realize democracy it is necessary to absolutely eliminate ... colour from all State and social policy, unless you would justify ... caste, wealth, rank, birth and education, as giving title to privileged treatment ...

If you try and level society, then nobody will do anything.

Whatever their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights.

It is, indeed, a vice of rulers that men who have exceptional ability and worth are offensive to them

Superior ability is not the exclusive possession of any one race or any one class.

I think the debate around nepotism is futile because I am an outsider and I know that there is no compensation of talent.

I believe every man is born equal.

I'm not fighting to be treated like a dude. I don't want to be treated like a man. I want to be treated as a talented stunt-person, or I want to be treated as an intelligent person.

It's about hard work and not gender.

If you have the talent, you should have the opportunity.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

That's the problem with the socialist model, because the socialist model - if you work twice as hard as I do, and you get just the same amount, pretty soon you decide that it's foolish for you to do more than I.

I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the work is good, it doesn’t matter where you come from