124 | Does nature imply that it is right for better people to have greater benefits? [Plato] |
2814 | Phaleas proposed equality of property, provided there is equality of education [Aristotle] |
22540 | Wealth could be quickly leveled by only the rich giving marriage dowries [Aristotle] |
19880 | All value depends on the labour involved [Locke] |
19982 | Some equality can be achieved by social categories, combined with taxes and poor relief [Montesquieu] |
19983 | Democracies may sometimes need to restrict equality [Montesquieu] |
3920 | If you equalise possessions, people's talents will make them unequal again [Hume] |
19788 | The pleasure of wealth and power is largely seeing others deprived of them [Rousseau] |
7248 | No citizen should be rich enough to buy another, and none so poor as forced to sell himself [Rousseau] |
21066 | Citizens can rise to any rank that talent, effort and luck can achieve [Kant] |
22798 | Money is the best way to achieve just equality [Hegel] |
23159 | Scarce goods may be denied entirely, to avoid their unequal distribution [Russell] |
23864 | Inequality could easily be mitigated, if it were not for the struggle for power [Weil] |
3235 | It is a mark of extreme exploitation that the sufferers do not realise their plight [Williams,B] |
20279 | Equality of opportunity unfairly rewards those lucky enough to have great ability [Singer] |
20549 | Equality is complex, with different spheres of equality where different principles apply [Walzer, by Swift] |
23105 | It is not deplorable that billionaires have more than millionaires [Kekes] |
23120 | The problem is basic insufficiency of resources, not their inequality [Kekes] |
20148 | Equal distribution is no good in a shortage, because there might be no one satisfied [Kekes] |
21040 | Libertarians just want formal equality in a free market; the meritocratic view wants fair equality [Sandel] |
20536 | Inequalities are needed, as incentives to do the most important jobs [Swift] |
20548 | A person can desire redistibution of wealth, without it being for reasons of equality [Swift] |
20591 | If there is no suffering, wealth inequalities don't matter much [Tuckness/Wolf] |
22843 | Inequalities are worse if they seem to be your fault, rather than social facts [Charvet] |
22845 | Money allows unlimited inequalities, and we obviously all agree to money [Charvet] |