...democracy: democracy presupposes equality at the outset, egalitarianism presupposes it at the end. 'Democracy demands that all of its citizens begin...Egalitarianism insists that they all finish even.' However, when the obsession with judging others or with social prejudices has been left behind, there...

...the humorist Roger Price, in The Great Roob Revolution (1970), distinguishes from "democracy" thus: "Democracy demands that all of its citizens begin...Egalitarianism insists that they all finish even." Then we get the situation satirized in LP Hartley's novel Facial Justice (1960), about "the prejudice...

...through the American Status System, Summit Books, New York, 1983), elaborates Roger Price's notion that "Democracy demands that all of its citizens begin...Egalitarianism insists that they all finish even" (The Great Roob Revolution, Random House, New York, 1970), and approves strongly of William Henry Ill's...