Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down read more

Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach­ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem­bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub­ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.

The problem with people is that they're only human.

The problem with people is that they're only human.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself