"Idiots are always in favour of inequality..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
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“Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal. Oneman owns his clothes, and another owns a country.”
“In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.”
“My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.”
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“I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.”
“Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.”