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Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Laurence J. Peter

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it. — Richard Flanagan

An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains. — Edmund Phelps

I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70. And this time we both know it. — Daniel Keyes

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when. — Nick Hanauer

Equity, after all, does not mean simply equal funding. Equal funding for unequal needs is not equality. — Jonathan Kozol

There is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of unequals. Friends — Kenneth H. Blanchard

The laws of the universe dictate that for every positive action, there is an unequal and sucky reaction. — Laurie Halse Anderson

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. — Thomas Jefferson

For privileged people, equality in an unequal world is a bonanza. — Vijay Prashad

True republicanism requires that every man shall have an equal chance- that every man shall be free to become as unequal as he can — Samuel Roberts Wells

our society is unequal, and bodily difference is used to justify that inequality. — Emer O'Toole

The world's biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn't have food shortages. — Rush Limbaugh

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions. — Peter Akinola

Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals. — Ted Malloch

She herself feels unequal to the world's sufferings and fears that by narrowing her focus on the world to make it manageable, she has trivialized it. — Edward Hirsch

Love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon
it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power. — Shulamith Firestone

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it. — Aleister Crowley

Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds — Charles I Of England

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality. — Kedar Joshi

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. — Earl Warren

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal. — Otto Kerner Jr.

People are egalitarian by nature, and unequal societies can never function well due to resentment and dissatisfaction. But — Yuval Noah Harari

In the ashes all men are levelled. We're born unequal, we die equal. — Seneca.

Osbert Mulliner was simply unequal to the task of tackling cavemen. — P.G. Wodehouse

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

But he was never one of them; their relationship was too unequal. He had loved them so he could know them, and he had known them so he could use them. — Orson Scott Card

The warders of the gate but scarce maintain Th' unequal combat, and resist in vain. — Charles Eliot

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements. — Rex Stout

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. — Will Durant

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals. — Aristotle.

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war. — Paul Craig Roberts

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations. — Lynn Coady

Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice. — Jerry Brown

All porn stars on Animal Farm are equal but some porn scenes are more unequal than others. — Brian Spellman

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done. — Joan Robinson

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances. — Jeremy Collier

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand; in fact, we should have our arms around one another. — Cloris Leachman

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society. — Owen Jones

If a man brags about his sex life he's a stud, but if a woman brags about her sex life she's a slut. — Anthony Liccione

Nothing is so unequal as equality. — Pliny The Elder

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires. — John Arbuthnot

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal. — James Cook

Fishing seems to be divided, like sex, into three unequal parts: anticipation and recollection and, in between, actual performance. — Arnold Gingrich

Capitalism may be the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism is the equal distribution of poverty. — Brian K. Vaughan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. — Winston S. Churchill

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. — Jared Diamond

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side. — Oliver Goldsmith

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. — Francis Bacon

What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings. — William Inge

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to. — Adam Phillips

Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth. — Richard D. Wolff

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. — Alfred Tennyson

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. — David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

Ethically and politically it is important to face up to the need for a universal perspective in our divided, multi-cultural, unequal and unjust world. — Alison Assiter

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love. — Soren Kierkegaard

We live in a very unequal society. — Jeremy Corbyn

We all arrive by different streets, by unequal languages, at Silence. — Pablo Neruda

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend. — Mark McCormack

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. — Fanny Burney

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species. — James Madison

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women. — Warren Farrell

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things. — Charles James Fox

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world. — Hugh Blair

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place. — Morgan Freeman

This society, promoted by its leaders as an egalitarian utopia, was in truth one of the most unequal societies on earth. — Peter Hitchens

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. — James Anthony Froude

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime. — Lorrie Moore

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause. — Aaron Swartz

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures. — Starhawk

All men are created unequal. — Robert A. Heinlein

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. — Ambrose Bierce

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. — Henry George

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

Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers? — Charles Du Bos

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship. — Simone Weil

Left-wing thinking is that difference means unequal; therefore, all difference must be denied — Dennis Prager

Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources. — Seth Priebatsch

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it. — James Madison