Irreconcilable Differences Quotes
Full quote: Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire. To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed, as in Russia after 1917. Even when repressed, inequality grows; 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.
The following year India was partitioned and millions of Hindus were slaughtered by Muslims and vice-a-versa.
At the time almost everyone thought him overly pessimistic. Despite huge efforts to bridge the differences including the partition of India and creating a separate Muslim state, the Muslims have become even more discontented in modern times. The Muslim antagonism however has expanded beyond the Hindus, to include the Christians, Jews, Bhais, Buddhists and any other religion in control of land where there are Muslims or they feel should have Muslims. Today, as in 1925 however, the difficult was caused be a very vocal and often violent extremist minority of the Islamic population.
The Republican Controlled House of Representatives impeached Clinton without a single Democratic vote. The Senate rejected the House blatant political maneuver and while 2/3 of the Senate was required for conviction, the Impeachment forces could not even get a majority in the most farcical impeachment in American History.
Li Feigan or Li Yaotang. Public “trials” and humiliations of dissidents were common during China’s Cultural Revolution.
