“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.”
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
“Sometimes Equality is absolutely right but at other times it is totally wrong. Sometimes people are neither equal nor unequal. They are just different, and they have very diverse needs.”
“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.”
“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
“For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.”