Samuel Johnson Quotes About Equality

• Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Animal, Equality

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). “The table talk of Samuel Johnson”, p.120

• It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Equality, Two, People

• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Equality, Egalitarianism

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 7 Apr. 1776)

• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Equality, Disease

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.257

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