“Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.” MenMaySoulResultsLordEqualLaborSightEqualityIngenuityGumption Book:Song of Years Source: Song of Years
“Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.” MenMadeOpportunityResultsEffortEqualEqualityEquality Of Opportunity Book:The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man Source: The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man
“Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.” IfsWorldDifferentRealBeliefLinesResultsUnderstoodLogicOppositesAbsolutesMathematicsEqualityCirclesAssumptionReal WorldIdenticalStraight Lines Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.” MeanOrderIndividualResultsEconomyCapitalismDeterminationStriveEqualityInequalityFree MarketAuthoritarian Government Author:Friedrich August von Hayek