Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Adams

There was just one woman. So she was just given a hard time, teased and not shown the respect of equals that she should have had.

Darryl Sydor

It's equally as hard to get back. I think the one thing that you have is the knowledge of the ups and downs, you have the experience of what you just went through. You know when to expect the different surges that happen and how quickly things can change. So I think you can go out there and understand the big picture, while obviously looking at the little things you have to do.

Gertrude Stein

There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

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.

Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.

Florence King

By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.

James D. Watson

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Jacques Barzun

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

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

Jenny Shipley

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

Christopher Dodd

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

George Orwell

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

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.

Frederick Douglass

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

Ferdinand Mount

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Francis Picabia

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp ...

Ignazio Silone

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Hannah Arendt

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Hannah Arendt

the public sphere is as consistently based on the law of equality as the private sphere is based on the law of universal difference and differentiation. Equality, in contrast to all that is involved in mere existence, is not given us, but is the result of human organization insofar as it is guided by the principle of justice. We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group on the strength of our decision to guarantee ourselves mutually equal rights.

Gender equality is a precondition to overcoming starvation, poverty and epidemics.

Erich Fromm

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

Everything has been accomplished in this very life by those whose mind is set in equality.

Between the town and the resort, it really is a one-plus-one equals five relationship. I think that's why the relationship has to be symbiotic, and focused on the whole.

Jim Gray

Some people find it equally as entertaining to come down here and volunteer on this end because you're the person picking up the phone answering. It gets to be kind of frenzied and it's fun.

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

Lilly Singh

Sometimes I'll be sitting on Facebook at home and see all these people getting married, having kids, having that life that I was told I should have. And sometimes I feel like I'm doing something wrong. Am I the stupid one here? Am I not doing what I'm supposed to do? And that's also equally as stressful.