Egalitarianism

Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

"It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."

Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist

"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd."

Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist

"The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the 'competition' between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of 'exploitation' for which you have damned the strong."

Florence King Author

"Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism."