"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."

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Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the inventor, the innovator, the exceptional man creates something new and insures continuous progress; the others emulate his work or merely improve their own lot by benefiting from his creativity.

— Thomas Steven Molnar