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

equality

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

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

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

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

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

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 more sayings from Anatole France

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

Virtue can only flourish among equals. 6 sayings from Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

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

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

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 more thoughts from J. M. Barrie

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

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

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

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. 47 quotes 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 views from Robert Toombs

The cry of equality pulls everyone down. 9 quotes 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 quotes from Lionel Trilling

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

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

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. 2 more sayings 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 sayings from Samuel Johnson

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. 63 more views from Samuel Johnson

Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it. 5 quotes 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 quotes from Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 views from Charles de Secondat

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 sayings 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 quotes from Abraham Lincoln