Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Haslett

We weren't looking to get rid of him, ... It was a money issue at the time. We had three good (defensive) ends, so we were looking to trade him if we could get equal value. We thought Darren's value to this team was a lot.

We were lazy. We didn't come out ready to play, and Elco obviously did. Lazy feet equals goals for the other team.

The principle of equality and liberty are not just words on paper.

The Self is present equally in all beings.

The sovereignty and equality of the Turkish Cypriots and the guaranteed right of Turkey are not negotiable subjects,

Rex Stout

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Paul Valery

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

Mary Douglas

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

Pliny the Elder

Nothing is so unequal as equality.

Thomas Paine

All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.

Thomas Sowell

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

Walt Whitman

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Samuel Johnson

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.

Rufus Choate

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

Rowan Williams

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Viviane Reding

The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.

Salmon P. Chase

All men are born equally free.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

Thomas B. Macaulay

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

Thomas Hobbes

For if all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.

Victoria Woodhull

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Gerry Adams

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

Herbert Spencer

It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.

H. L. Mencken

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

Jenny Shipley

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

Jim Clyburn

Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn't be limited to the wealthiest few.

Jennifer Westfeldt

I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

Hillary Clinton

I sure do want to make sure women get equal pay for the work we do.