Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

equality

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. 6 sayings from B. R. Ambedkar

Virtue can only flourish among equals. 6 more quotes from Mary Wollstonecraft

The sole equality on earth is death. 6 views from Philip James Bailey

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. 20 sayings from Anatole France

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. 2 quotes from Benjamin Tucker

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. 14 other quotes from Golda Meir

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. 21 more wisdom & wit from Malcolm X

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. 53 sayings from Honore de Balzac

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. 53 other sayings from Honore de Balzac

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. 33 wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying. 6 thoughts from Mikhail Bakunin

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. 13 quotes from James M. Barrie

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. 2 other quotes from J. M. Barrie

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. 4 thoughts from Mary McCarthy

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. 47 wisdom & wit from George Orwell

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it. 2 wisdom & wit from Robert Toombs

The cry of equality pulls everyone down. 9 more thoughts from Iris Murdoch

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. 6 views from Lionel Trilling

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. 10 other thoughts from Arthur Ashe

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. 19 other views from Alexis de Tocqueville

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. 2 thoughts from Robert Toombs

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. 63 wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson

Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it. 5 sayings from Frances Wright

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. 63 more thoughts from Samuel Johnson

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. 63 other sayings from Samuel Johnson

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. 100 other sayings from Mahatma Gandhi

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. 9 other wisdom & wit from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. 57 views from Will Rogers

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. 9 sayings from Pope John XXIII

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. 12 quotes from Mao Zedong

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. 12 other quotes from Rudyard Kipling

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. 5 wisdom & wit from Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. 56 other sayings from Khalil Gibran

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war. 10 quotes from Charles de Secondat

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. 41 views from Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally. 24 other views from W. C. Fields

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality. 3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. 9 other quotes from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. 6 quotes from Barbara Jordan

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. 47 thoughts from Abraham Lincoln

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. 2 more quotes from Agnes Macphail

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. 105 more views from Albert Einstein

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. 9 quotes from Andrew Jackson