FROM A FR READER:
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law” – Aristotle
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” – Aristotle
vive la différence
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vive_la_diff%C3%A9rence
Nice.
My wife says she doesn’t want equality. She says she enjoy the pedestal I placed her upon.
One of my favorite quote on equality is from Tocqueville...
“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.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville
I find it fascinating that even back in Aristotle’s time (and I imagine also before that) “equality” was a societal issue.
That means Marxism (equality mongers) has been around much longer than Marx.
Which convinces me that this “depraved taste for equality” has a strong genetic component.