#2,942

The secret longing of every civilized society is not to abolish inequality, but to educate it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 469

#2,920

Unjust inequality is not remedied by equality, but by just inequality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 466

#2,810

A civilized society requires that in it, as in the old Christian society, equality and inequality be in permanent dialogue.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

#2,758

Inequality and equality are theses that should be defended alternatively, in opposition to the dominant social climate.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443

#2,724

Where equality allows freedom to enter, inequality slips in.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438

#2,655

There is something definitively vile about the man who only admits equals, who does not tirelessly seek out his betters.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 428

#2,359

Where the customs and the laws permit everyone to aspire to everything, everyone lives a frustrated life, no matter what position he comes to occupy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 382

#2,297

The economic inflation at the end of this century is a moral phenomenon.
The result, and at the same time the punishment, of egalitarian greed.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 373

#2,276

“Equality of opportunity” does not mean the possibility for all to be decent, but the right of all not to be decent.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 369

#2,031

In order to oppress the people, it is necessary to suppress in the name of the people that which stands out from the people.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 330

#1,974

Liberty is the right to be different; equality is a ban on being different.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 321

#1,948

Dreams of excellence do not deserve respect except when they do not disguise a vulgar appetite for superiority.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 318

#1,851

Men do not proclaim themselves equals because they believe they are sons of God, but when they believe they partake of divinity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304

#1,828

Without a hierarchical structure it is not possible to transform freedom from a fable into a fact.
The liberal always discovers too late that the price of equality is the omnipotent state.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,767

The man who is disrespectful in order to demonstrate his equality certifies his inferiority.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 292

#1,727

Only among friends are there no ranks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 286

#1,669

Systematic familiarity is the hypocrisy of an egalitarian who considers himself inferior, or superior, but not equal.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 279

#1,609

The reactionary does not condemn the bourgeois mentality, but rather its predominance.
What we reactionaries deplore is the absorption of the aristocracy and the people by the bourgeoisie.
It is the emasculation of liberty or, alternatively, of equality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 267

#1,605

To insult an inferior is just slightly more vile than to flatter him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 266

#1,461

The egalitarian becomes exasperated when he sees that mandatory schooling wipes out conventional inequality only to aggravate innate inequality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 247