Inequality of Power Quotes

To me feminism is not simply a struggle to end male chauvinism or a movement to ensure that women will have equal rights with men; it is a commitment to eradicating the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels-sex, race, and class, to name a few-and a commitment to reorganizing U.S. society so that the self-development of people can take precedence over imperialism, economic expansion, and material desires.

Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way. Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

No nation can be freer than its most oppressed, richer than its poorest, wiser than its most ignorant.

Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.

There was not virtue enough either in state or general government to protect an innocent, helpless people in the enjoyment of their Constitutional rights.

Inequality of Mind and Body are so established by God Almighty in his Constitution of Human Nature that no art or policy can ever plain them down to a level.

Matters goeth not well to pass in England, nor shall not do till everything be in common … that there be no greater masters than we be.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

As the Occupy Movement demonstrated, it's tough to change anything when you're talking about everything.

I'll tell you what a weakness is of this country [the USA]: there are a lot of people who are sick and tired because Washington does not play by the same rules that the American people have to play by.

If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one.

The rich man in his castle / The poor man at his gate, / God made them high or lowly. / And ordered their estate.

Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.

The term "terrorism" usually is used in a way that essentially legitimizes state violence and police violence. Historically, the greatest sources of violence have come from states and have come from their armies and police, but is not labeled terrorism. So, I think, instead of thinking in terms of the sort of seemingly neutral concepts of terrorism or violence or body counts, let’s also think in terms of politics and context.

For Americans the doctrine of universal equality is a doctrine of death …

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Oligarchic societies may be able to achieve high rates of growth for a period of time, but continuing inequities in distribution lead to political instability and populism.

… a contest between the insufficient and the insufferable

Turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

There is no pride in attacking a sleeping enemy.

Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist