Quotes about equality

"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on equality   

"The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more."

Aristotle on equality   

"Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons."

Aristotle on equality
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."

Balzac, Honore De on equality
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"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."

Beauvoir, Simone De on equality   

"There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities."

Burton, Paul on equality   

"Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better."

Chennault, Anna on equality   

"Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery."

Cooper, James F. on equality   

"She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage."

Delano, Anthony on equality   

"Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal."

Durant, William J. on equality   

"A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered."

Dworkin, Andrea on equality   

"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."

Dylan, Bob on equality
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"The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' qualities and skills. There is no constitutional right to play ball. All there is a right to compete for it on equal terms."

Ellis, Tim III on equality   

"Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on equality
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"When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men."

Fanon, Frantz on equality   

"We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around."

Ferraro, Geraldine on equality   

"Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort."

Fields, Rubye on equality   

"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality."

Fromm, Erich on equality   

"The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay."

Grant, Linda on equality   

"That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent."

Huxley, Aldous on equality   

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

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

Johnson, Samuel on 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."

Johnson, Samuel on equality   

"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."

Johnson, Samuel on equality   

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal"

King Jr. Martin Luther on equality
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"The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent."

Lawrence, D. H. on equality   

"The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened."

Lewis, Wyndham on equality   

"Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion."

Llosa, Mario Vargas on equality   

"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects."

Luther, Martin on equality
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"If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population."

Marcuse, Herbert on equality   

"The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on equality
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"No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."

Orwell, George on equality   

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

Orwell, George on equality
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"The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens."

Paglia, Camille on equality   

"Six feet of earth make all men equal."

Proverb on equality
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"You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too."

Proverb, American on equality   

"Perfect love cannot be without equality."

Proverb, Scottish on equality
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"A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing."

Proverb, Spanish on equality   

"I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there."

Reagan, Maureen on equality