Equality Quotes

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

Sleep, Law, Rich

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

Human, Revolution, Wealth

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
Robert Mugabe

Happen, Country, Taken

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Government, Material, Position

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

Religion, Liberty, Fraternity

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
Kofi Annan

Good, Goal, Challenge

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
David Cameron

Leadership, Courage, Amazing

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

Life, Religion, Today

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Honore de Balzac

Great, Heart, Give

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Human, Pleasure

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Pope John XXIII

Peace, Trust, Alone

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson

Death, Begins, Disease

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone Weil

Beauty, Truth, Thinking

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Men, Business, Control

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
Thomas Huxley

Human, Brother, Serve

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
Peggy Noonan

True, Friends, Talk

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
Mikhail Bakunin

Men, Two, Point

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

Sleep, Law, Rich

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Means, Individual, Order

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono

Fool, Justice, Happen

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
Jimmy Carter

Himself, Process, Bring

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Women, Men

I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
Olivia Thirlby

Change, Fight, Help

Socialism values equality more than liberty.
Dennis Prager

Liberty, Socialism, Values

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
James M. Barrie

May, Equal, Servants

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