7 Metaphors for inequalities

If inequality of this kind was a weakness, it was a weakness bound up with the very strength of the universe.

But the inequality of parents and children is the law of our nature, eternal and uncontrolable.

Inequality of rank, or near consanguinity, were the only obstacles to marriage.

And these differences, these inequalities in the social position of men, are not matters of accident or violence, or peculiar to such and such a time, or such and such a country; they are matters of universal application, produced spontaneously in every human society by virtue of the primitive and general laws of human nature, in the midst of events and under the influence of social systems utterly different.

I do not mean that inequality is the necessary result of social growth, but that it is the constant tendency of social growth if unaccompanied by changes in social adjustments, which, in the new conditions that growth produces, will secure equality.

It is inevitable that such a man produces work of varying merit; inequality must be a characteristic feature of his art.

We do not quarrel with his abstract propositions in respect to political equality; but his deductions strike a blow at civilization, since he maintains that inequalities of human condition are the source of all political and social evils, while Christianity, confirmed by common-sense, teaches that the source of social evils is in the selfish nature of man rather than in his outward condition.

7 Metaphors for  inequalities