Equality Quotes
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.
Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.
A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.
Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.
You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.
If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.
All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.
No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.
There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.
It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night!
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?
How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?
For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.
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.
The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.
I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.
Though magical communities believe in the God and the Goddess - the equally balanced male and female sides of Spirit - they also believe this equality brings wholeness and creates the One.
If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.
When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.
Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.
It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.
Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality of men and women and non-discrimination against religious and other minorities.
In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property
We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.
The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.
I think there is a total equality for me between painting a literary figure or Kate Moss or my Mum or a dog or a bird. To me, they are all absolutely equal.