Thomas Hobbes Quotes

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

In our insistence upon equality of opportunity has our system advanced beyond all the world.

Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Equal Rights for All, Special Privileges for None.

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.