Full Idea
A highly rational, efficient and unmitigated application of the idea of equality of opportunity, while abandoning the idea of equality of respect as vague and nostalgic, would lead to a quite inhuman society.
Gist of Idea
Equality of opportunity without equality of respect would create a very inhuman society
Source
Bernard Williams (The Idea of Equality [1962], §3)
Book Reference
Williams,Bernard: 'Problems of the Self: Papers 1956-1972' [CUP 1979], p.248