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Egalitarian policies are the best way to unite and empower people, and are also a necessary counterweight to the sometimes detrimental influence of market forces. -- Johanna Siguroardottir
It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West! -- Greg Bear
I really did have a very egalitarian upbringing. -- Michael Moorcock
Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power. -- Mary Douglas
Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet. -- Douglas Adams
Particularly during the late 1960s, a large number of American skyjackers earnestly believed that Fidel Castro's Cuba was an egalitarian, post-racial utopia. -- Brendan I. Koerner
I was always the weirdo who wanted to have an egalitarian service in synagogue and felt I was always going against the grain. -- Susan Isaacs
Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings. -- Robert Dallek
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement. -- Robert Bork
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated. -- Tyler Cowen
However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did. -- Rory Kinnear
Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life. -- Michael Sandel
No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty. -- Kate Reardon
It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest. -- Chris Martin
The fallacy in the progressive critique is the egalitarian dogma that no one should get more than what liberals deem is a 'fair' reward, nor should there be any risk to anyone to fail. -- Robert Agostinelli
I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village. -- Pankaj Mishra
The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a result, we have new ways to allow people to exercise their human and civil rights. -- Vint Cerf
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production. -- Alex Tabarrok
The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty. -- David Amram
Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet. -- Charles Platt
Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage. The real contributions of economics to human welfare might turn out to be very different from what most people - even most economists - expect. -- Tyler Cowen
Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and more decentralized than hierarchical. It serves individuals and communities, not mass audiences, and it is extraordinarily multi-faceted in the purposes to which it is put. -- Mitch Kapor
Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that. -- Brian Cox
I think, in terms of corporate philosophy, I've always believed that you've got to treat people in a very very egalitarian manner in the sense I like to treat people on a one-to-one basis. And I like people to take on a lot of responsibilities because I think with a sense of responsibility also comes a sense of purpose. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos. -- Robert Stacy McCain
Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas. -- Peter Kreeft
Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist. -- Murray Rothbard
For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society -- Francis Fukuyama
There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world. -- Jacques Maritain
Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one. -- Jon Ronson
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. -- Florence King
We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other. -- David Brooks
The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite. -- Murray Rothbard
I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times. -- Charlton Heston
When were we the most egalitarian country in the world? When we had the Glass/Steagal Act, which prevented the banks from becoming the criminal operations that they've become. -- Gerald Celente
Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We don't want capitalism. We want a decent society. -- Howard Zinn
If the egalitarian wishes to realise his ideal, given the unpromising nature of his material, he might consider rendering all persons equally dead, for perhaps only thus could he eradicate any difference. -- D. Michael Quinn
If we don't have an egalitarian, equitable, and peaceful society, being very wealthy isn't worth much. If I can make a little bit of a dent in addressing this issue, I'll have done my service. -- Amit Bhatia
The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality. -- Adolf Loos

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