"Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell
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.
More by Thomas Sowell
“There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.”
“More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?”
“Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.”
More on Equality
“There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.”
“Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.”
“Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.”
More on Power
“How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?”
“Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.”
“All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.”