Aristotle Quotes About Equality

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

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism

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

  Aristotle

  Witty, Equality, Men

• 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 government to the utmost.

  Aristotle

  Freedom, Equality, Democracies Have

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.131, Aristotle

• Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

  Aristotle

  Freedom, Equality, Men

  "Politics" by Aristotle, Book V, (1301a.29-31),

• 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.

  Aristotle

  Witty, Equality, Men

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.160, Aristotle

• Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

  Aristotle

  Equality, Equal Treatment, Persons

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3136, Delphi Classics

• The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Equality, Desire

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

• The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

  Aristotle

  Equality, Thinking, Democrat

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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