Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our nation wants peace, stability, justice and equality in international relations,

B. R. Ambedkar

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

B. R. Ambedkar

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Berthe Morisot

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

Pat Conroy

I thought I'd stumbled onto Pluto. What I did not realize, I had stumbled into the great lie. They were separate but there was no equality whatsoever.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

He lives in those of us who work hard to fulfill his mission of equality and opportunity. For all of us, he is very much alive.

Basically, it said, 'we support non-discrimination, and equality for all' -- except for gay people.

Anastasia Griffith

I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

Ludwig von Mises

To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

Timothy Noah

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Arthur Ashe

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

Ayn Rand

Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

Bertrand Russell

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

Bryant H. McGill

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

Marlo Thomas

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to man, but that you treat yourself equally the way you treat a man

Benjamin Franklin

Onions can make ev'n Heirs and Widows weep

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Abraham Lincoln

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

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.

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.

Dennis Prager

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Aristotle

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

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.

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.

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.

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.