equality quotes

• It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. (Thomas Mann) [strange/equality//democracy]
• Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. ( Aristotle) [equality/treatment]
• The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds. (Edmund Burke) [equality/foundations]
• The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [human/equality]
• Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [courage/equality/problem]
• The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. (Anatole France) [right/equality]
• The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same. (Aldous Leonard Huxley) [brotherhood/men/equality/men]
• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. (Samuel Johnson) [disease/equality/death]
• Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. (Samuel Johnson) [human/happiness/equality/enjoyment]
• It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. (Samuel Johnson) [state/equality]
• The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent. (David Herbert Lawrence) [equality/equality]
• It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. (Thomas Mann) [strange/equality//democracy]
• 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/more//start]
• I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. (Thomas Paine) [equality/duties//mercy]
• I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there. (Maureen Reagan) [willpower/equality/office/women]
• Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. (George Bernard Shaw) [equality]
• One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. (Marlo Thomas) [equality]
• Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. (Simone Weil) [equality/recognition/etiquette/attention]
• Bush promoted a conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality. (Danny Glover) [equality]
• “I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.” (Anne Hathaway) [equality]
• I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [equality/equality/choice]
• The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [state/equality]
• Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [women/willpower/equality/men]
• [Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had made a similar point in an April speech.] We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe — liberty, equality and justice for all — are encountering extraordinary challenges, … But it is also an age in which we can join hands with others who hold to those principles and face similar challenges. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) [point/age/equality/]
• All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. (Bob Dylan) [equality/thing/people]
• I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality. (John Randolph) [aristocrat/love/equality]
• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions. (Barack Obama) [equality/people/share]

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