Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.

Barbara Jordan

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

Barbara Jordan

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

We're heading into what is expected to be our worst year on record. We're predicting a 20 percent loss in production, which is equal to $100 million.

Bashar al-Assad

Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.

Jonah Goldberg

Liberty has turned into licentiousness, and tolerance for dissenters has become little more than rank relativism and nihilism. All perspectives are equally valid, which means no perspective is truly valid.

Marsha Blackburn

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

She was a campaigner for equal pay for the value of her talented athletes.

Dennis Prager

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Deborah Tannen

Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same.

Aristotle

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Aristotle

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

Aristotle

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

Nikita Khrushchev

Let us not talk about using force; we are equally strong. In fact, we can swat your ass.

Zadie Smith

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

Clint Eastwood

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

Leon Black

Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support.

Sandy Miller

We did this show 20 years ago, and I never repeat a show unless the quality is equal or better than the previous one. We have a lot of strong girls and guys. I love the choreography the kids have come up with.

Nita Ambani

Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

Errol Morris

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

Ethan Zuckerman

On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access.

Gerry Schwartz

Interestingly, a good undergraduate program does a lot of what an MBA does. I think a really good undergraduate program and some work experience is just about the equal of an MBA.

Jayne Meadows

We are not equally talented. Steve is enormously talented.

John Roberts

Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving to live up to the judicial oath.

When were running our offense, it's obvious. But when we're not running our offense, it's equally as obvious.

Alberto Giacometti

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Aldous Huxley

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

Aldous Huxley

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Madeleine M. Kunin

When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.

Venus Williams

We want to be treated equally as the men. This is not just about women's tennis, but women all over the world.

Sue Monk Kidd

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.