Skip to content

It must furthermore be borne in mind that equality stands for monotony and not for harmony. A harmonious melody can only be established by different unidentical musical tones. These tones must be assembled and have to follow in a certain sequence; otherwise they will result in chaos and not in melody. Human society presupposes such an inequality and unity.

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn The Menace of the Herd (1943)

Another quote →

Topics

Equality

More quotes by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Bodies are mutually attracted by nearness, knowledge, and pleasure but souls by distance, mystery, and suffering.

The Menace of the Herd (1943)

The Romantic may be alone, but he is never lonely, and that because of his knowledge of the presence of God.

The Menace of the Herd (1943)

'Welfare State' is a misnomer, for every state must care for the common good.

The Timeless Christian (1969)

Patriotism, not nationalism, should inspire the citizen.

Leftism Revisited (1990)

Generosity is a virtue more frequently found in the small top layers than among the masses. After all, it takes intelligence to suspect that generosity very often pays while egotism does not.

Monarchy and War (2000)

All Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn quotes →

You may also like

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Mikhail Bakunin The Red Association (1870)

The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.

Milton Friedman

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Felix Frankfurter

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. nature has made nothing equal, her sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues Reflections and Maxims (1746)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.