123 | Do most people like equality because they are second-rate? [Plato] |
1402 | Friendship is impossible between master and slave, even if they are made equal [Plato] |
262 | Men and women should qualify equally for honours on merit [Plato] |
2830 | We can claim an equal right to aristocratic virtue, as well as to wealth or freedom [Aristotle] |
2833 | Equality is obviously there to help people who do not get priority in the constitution [Aristotle] |
2834 | It is always the weak who want justice and equality, not the strong [Aristotle] |
19945 | Jew and Greeks, bond and free, male and female, are all one in Christ [Paul] |
20485 | Hobbes says people are roughly equal; Locke says there is no right to impose inequality [Hobbes, by Wolff,J] |
2366 | There is not enough difference between people for one to claim more benefit than another [Hobbes] |
19981 | No one even thinks of equality in monarchies and despotism; they all want superiority [Montesquieu] |
19991 | Equality is not command by everyone or no one, but command and obedience among equals [Montesquieu] |
19786 | Three stages of the state produce inequalities of wealth, power, and enslavement [Rousseau] |
19800 | The social compact imposes conventional equality of rights on people who may start unequally [Rousseau] |
22672 | It is admirable to elevate the humble to the level of the great, but the opposite is depraved [Tocqueville] |
20486 | Only liberty, equality and sympathy can stand up to anti-social people [Kropotkin] |
23161 | Slaves can be just as equal as free people [Russell] |
23753 | People absurdly claim an equal share of things which are essentially privileged [Weil] |
23901 | Relationships depend on equality, so unequal treatment kills them [Weil] |
23841 | By making money the sole human measure, inequality has become universal [Weil] |
3234 | Equality seems to require that each person be acknowledged as having a significant point of view [Williams,B] |
3233 | Equality implies that people are alike in potential as well as in needs [Williams,B] |
3275 | Equality was once opposed to aristocracy, but now it opposes public utility and individual rights [Nagel] |
3277 | In judging disputes, should we use one standard, or those of each individual? [Nagel] |
3281 | The ideal of acceptability to each individual underlies the appeal to equality [Nagel] |
20277 | Equality of interests is a minimal principle, not implying equal treatment [Singer] |
23257 | We can treat people as equals, or actually treat them equally [Dworkin, by Grayling] |
18621 | Treating people as equals is the one basic value of all plausible political theories [Dworkin, by Kymlicka] |
23106 | To rectify the undeserved equality, we should give men longer and women shorter lives [Kekes] |
23121 | It is just a fact that some people are morally better than others [Kekes] |
23256 | Liberty and equality cannot be reconciled [Grayling] |
20526 | Utilitarians argue for equal distribution because of diminishing utility of repetition [Wolff,J] |
20528 | Difference Principle: all inequalities should be in favour of the disadvantaged [Wolff,J] |
20997 | The need for equality among people arises from impartiality and objectivity [Sen] |
20996 | All modern theories of justice demand equality of something [Sen] |
20550 | Opportunity should ignore extraneous factors, or foster competence, or ignore all disadvantages [Swift] |
20587 | Most people want equality because they want a flourishing life [Tuckness/Wolf] |
22840 | Mere equality, as in two trees being the same height, has no value at all [Charvet] |