“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
Timothy Leary (1920–1996) American psychologist
As quoted in Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1987) by Robert Byrne, #40
“He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.”
Source: Political Treatise (1677), Ch. 9, Of Aristocracy, Continuation
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“As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.”
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
Source: What is Property? (1840), Ch. V, Part 2; this might be the ultimate inspiration of the later slogan coined in 1848 by Anselme Bellegarrigue (and often attributed to Proudhon): "Anarchy is order, government is civil war."
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.”
Seneca the Younger Hercules Furens
Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), line 84.
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Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge
Concurring, Dennis v. United States, 339 U.S. 162, 184 (1950).
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Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Remarks on the Civil Rights Act (1968)
Source: Politics, III. V. 8., https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aristotle-politics/1932/pb_LCL264.211.xml
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer
Dune Genesis (1980)
Context: In the beginning I was just as ready as anyone to fall into step, to seek out the guilty and to punish the sinners, even to become a leader. Nothing, I felt, would give me more gratification than riding the steed of yellow journalism into crusade, doing the book that would right the old wrongs.
Reevaluation raised haunting questions. I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.
Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
Les Loix du Mouvement et du Repos, déduites d'un Principe Métaphysique (1746)