Samuel Johnson Equality Quotations

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

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.

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.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.