"Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."
― Nicolas Chamfort
Topic(s):
Equality
More From Nicolas Chamfort
- "There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love."
- "Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death."
- "When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
More In Equality
- "We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality."― Arthur C. Brooks
- "Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me – drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality."― Johann Lamont
- "Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it."― Frances Wright