Equal Quotes - Page 24

• The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.

  Mary C. Ames

  Sex, Women, Honor

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• Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Men, Rights, Hands

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• Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Believe, Men, Vegetarianism

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1909). “Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern”

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• Justice always whirls in equal measure.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice

  William Shakespeare (1767). “Mr. William Shakespeare: His Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies”

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• Poise the cause in justice's equal scales,
  Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

  William Shakespeare

  Justice, Causes, Beam

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Rann (1791). “The dramatic works of Shakspeare: in six volumes”, p.256

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• In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Equality, Thinking

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• There is nothing can equal the tender hours
  When life is first in bloom,
  When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
  Finds everywhere perfume;
  When the present is all and it questions not
  If those flowers shall pass away,
  But pleased with its own delightful lot,
  Dreams never of decay.

  Henry George Bohn

  Dream, Flower, Heart

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• A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives these rights not because the importance the cash value, as it were) it has for outsiders but because it gives meaning to the lives of those who participate in it.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Rights, Giving, Cash

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• Death makes us all equal.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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• The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Strong, Character, Men

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• Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Issues, Opposites

  "Life Without Prejudice". Book by Richard M. Weaver, "Life without prejudice," p. 6, 1965.

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• Flowers produce an effect on me which can only be produced in an equal degree by music.

  Charlotte Alington Barnard

  Flower, Degrees, Produce

  Charlotte Alington Barnard (1877). “Thoughts, verses, and songs, by Claribel”

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• I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he was better worth translating. I believe even the best things are not equal to their fame. Perhaps it would be better to translate fame itself,--or is not that what the poets themselves do? However, I have not done with Pindar yet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Rude, Wish

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.83, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Pain, Memories, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.92

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• There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Vegetarianism, Flesh Eating, Cannibalism

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• The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fire, Water, Imagination

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.54

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• Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, Ignorance, Responsibility

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• [T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Fun, Book, Dirty

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• Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty, Dream, Imagination

  Nancy L. Etcoff (2000). “Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty”, Anchor

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• No apology is equal to the task set before it.

  John Kador

  Apology, Tasks

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.18, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his support, and nothing more; it is evident that all of them being equal, no one would work for another. Neither would any of them possess wherewith to pay another for his labour, for each person having only such a quantity of land as was necessary to produce a subsistence, would consume all he should gather, and would not have any thing to give in exchange for the labour of others.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Country, Land, Giving

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 1), 1766.

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• So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Happiness, Education, Opportunity

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• General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to distribute most generally and equally the property of the world. As a rule, where education is most general the distribution of property is most general.... As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Education, Country, Countries Of The World

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.

  Alice Moore Hubbard

  Women, Believe, Ifs

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• The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Sex, War, Men

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