Thinking about Equality

If there is a new religious doctrine in the world today, it is equality. Dogmatic slumbers always injure true religion.

This is supposed to be the age of equality. Yet in no nation in the world today are human beings equal to one another. In every nation, perhaps most of all (ironically) in socialist nations, there are a relative few who are wealthier, more powerful, and often more intelligent, with better health, better teeth, permission to travel, perquisites of many sorts. To hold that egalitarianism is the leading ideal of our era is to live by mystification, in illusion and unreality.

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Michael Novak

Michael Novak was a Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat.

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If there is a new religious doctrine in the world today, it is equality. Dogmatic slumbers always injure true religion.

This is supposed to be the age of equality. Yet in no nation in the world today are human beings equal to one another. In every nation, perhaps most of all (ironically) in socialist nations, there are a relative few who are wealthier, more powerful, and often more intelligent, with better health, better teeth, permission to travel, perquisites of many sorts. To hold that egalitarianism is the leading ideal of our era is to live by mystification, in illusion and unreality.