“Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.”
“Justice means equality for equals, and inequality for unequals.”
“The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.”
“For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.”
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
“Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.”