Aristotle Quotes on Equality

6 quotes

  1. If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

    #26 IV.1291b34
  2. Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

    #27 V.1302a29
  3. Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

  4. Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

  5. The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

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

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