Levelling Quotes

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.

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

Death is the great leveller.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

The masses are principally to be feared because they fly out ever and anon into violence; and from plundering they proceed to the flat levelling of estates.

Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the Nietzsche who denounces the insipidity and mediocrity that result from democracy's levelling impulses could not be more acute.

The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the workmen in the camp to receive the salary of the legislator... who want to level even talents, knowledge, the virtues, because they themselves have none of these things.

An index is a great leveller.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

We have made an admirable and almost incredible destruction of all abuses and prejudices; that every thing not directly useful to, or coming from, the people has been leveled.