Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quote

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy — I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.


Holmes-Laski Letters : The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916 - 1935 (1953), Vol. 2, p. 942


I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy — I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as...

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy — I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as...

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy — I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as...

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy — I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as...