He who seeks equality between unequals, seeks an absurdity.
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Ch. 9, Of Aristocracy, ContinuationBaruch Spinoza
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As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
Pierre-Joseph (P. J.) Proudhon
Translation (from Hayek, The Road to Serfdom): Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
Felix Frankfurter
The man who seeks one thing in life and but one
May hope to achieve it before life is done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.Robert Bulwer-Lytton
God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.Rabindranath Tagore
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