Equality of Status Quotes

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

All Americans are kings.

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.

No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

I don't see myself any higher than anyone else.

I don't get star struck by anyone. Everyone is a human being.

The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

Eventually, people have to realize I'm not different than the person next door, except that more people know my name.

I am intimidating no one in America. No one feels like they are below me in any way. They feel like they are absolutely either at or above my level and 100-percent comfortable talking to me.