quotations about equality
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs, when placed beneath it.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS
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attributed, Day's Collacon
Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not being divisive; those fighting to keep those people out are.
JON STEWART
The Late Show, July 21, 2016
If all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
PLINY THE ELDER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Peace, love and equality
Your terms
I don't fit into those words
BIKINI KILL
"Blood One"
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
MAHATMA GANDHI
attributed, The Photographer's Vision
Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler; a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.
L. LANGSTAFF
attributed, Day's Collacon
Equality begins with economic empowerment.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
No one enjoys being equal.
DAVID MAMET
Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
ERNESTINE L. ROSE
History of Woman Suffrage
Equality begins in the grave.
AMERICAN PROVERB
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
AYN RAND
The Fountainhead
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
REX STOUT
The League of Frightened Men
Equality lies only in human moral dignity.... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The Brothers Karamazov
The power of equality
Is not yet what it ought to be
It fills me up like a hollow tree
The power of equality
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
"The Power of Equality"
The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Let me take you on a little trip
My supersonic ship's at your disposal
If you feel so inclined. Well alright.
Nobody's gonna travel second class
There'll be equality
THE KINKS
"Supersonic Rocket Ship"
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Free to Choose
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Democracy in America
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of that universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
LORD ACTON
The History of Freedom in Antiquity