"The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous
poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself,
when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the
equal; inequality to the unequal" - that would be true justice
speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".
- Friedrich Nietzsche, "Twilight of the Idols", Expeditions of an Untimely Man, 48, (1888)
- Friedrich Nietzsche, "Twilight of the Idols", Expeditions of an Untimely Man, 48, (1888)
"The worst form of
inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
- Aristotle
This first appears in 1974 in an explanation of Aristotle's politics in Time magazine, before being condensed to an epigram as "Aristotle's Axiom" in Peter's People (1979) by Laurence J. Peter
This first appears in 1974 in an explanation of Aristotle's politics in Time magazine, before being condensed to an epigram as "Aristotle's Axiom" in Peter's People (1979) by Laurence J. Peter
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