Quotes about equality
equality government use
The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality. Victoria Woodhull
equality lovely liberty
Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words! Giuseppe Mazzini
equality issues unions
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. Gerry Adams
equality men progress
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. Herbert Spencer
equality kind annoying
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. H. L. Mencken
equality practice abuse
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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
equality views development
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view. Jenny Shipley
equality literature world
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. Herbert Read
equality men born
All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it. Evan Esar
equality cemetery
The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
equality hands white
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp ... Harriet Beecher Stowe
equality men law
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. Ignazio Silone
equality organization results
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. Hannah Arendt
equality rights law
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.
equality gender overcoming poverty
Gender equality is a precondition to overcoming starvation, poverty and epidemics.
equality men history
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. Erich Fromm
equality way poor
It's a poor rule that won't work both ways. Frederick Douglass
equality opportunity equality-of-opportunity
We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity. Ferdinand Mount
equality boredom unfair
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. Francis Picabia
equality government america
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. Florence King
equality maximum people workers
It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.
equality life mind whose
Everything has been accomplished in this very life by those whose mind is set in equality.
equality rights liberty
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights? Ernestine Rose
equality empowerment economic
Equality begins with economic empowerment. George H. W. Bush
equality cry
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. Iris Murdoch
equality men important
The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it. Ida Tarbell
equality men feminist
Most women are one man away from welfare. Gloria Steinem
equality equal asks
All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.
equality justice poison
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice. Friedrich Nietzsche
equality creative community
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge. Jerry Brown
equality power literature
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. Honore de Balzac
equality sublime conventions
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. Jacques Barzun
equality matter ability
No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe