Egalitarians Believe Quotes & Sayings

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack. — Brandon Sanderson

For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can we persuade one in such a state to change his ways? — Aristotle.

There is silly are people. You must suffer, or cause others to suffer, before you will have respect of one kind or the other from them ... I will not stand to be looked at by anybody, especially when the looking is done with wrong thinking. — Richard Llewellyn

His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very superior character to any thing deserved by his own. — Jane Austen

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. — Mary Douglas

Teach a man who knows Nothing, Something, and he'll think he knows Everything — Joshua Teya

Woe to him who doesn't know this Christian faith is bourgeois. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

If you are serious about education, then you need to start a lot earlier than fifteen years old to give each child a decent shot at life in the real world, as distinguished from make-believe equality while in school. Ability grouping or "tracking" - so hated by the ideological egalitarians - is one of the best ways of doing that. — Thomas Sowell