Equality Quotes - Page 6

• Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Real, Sacrifice, Egalitarianism

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• Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Problem

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Determination, Mean, Order

  "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich August von Hayek, (Ch. 11), 1944.

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• If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Relationship, Freedom

  Interview with John Pilger on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

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• Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

  Matthew Henry

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  "Happy Spouse-- Happy House: The Best Game Plan for a Winning Marriage" by Pat Williams, Ruth E. Williams, David Wimbish, 2009.

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• Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Mother, Church, Path

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• Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

  Aristotle

  Witty, Men, Diversity

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.160, Aristotle

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• Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

  Honore de Balzac

  Power, Literature, Earth

  "La Duchesse de Langeais". Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in "Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac" ("Complete works of Balzac") published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855.

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• It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Odd Things, Disagree, Universe

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

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Mutual Help, Arms

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• The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

  Jane Addams

  Inspiring, Peace, Community

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Soul, Mold

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

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• Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Rights, Practice

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Disease, Disease And Death

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.257

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• 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

  Business, Men, Taste

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book One, Chapter V, 1840.

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• From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

  Paul Tsongas

  Strong Women, Military, School

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• We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

  John Ruskin

  Sex, Giving, Perfection

  John Ruskin (2001). “Sesame and Lilies”, p.76, Electric Book Company

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• The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Differences, Meanness, Smallest

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• The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Mind, Students

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “An Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.182, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

  Marlo Thomas

  Fighting, Guitar, Fields

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• Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Inspirational, Education, Strong

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• there are no nationalities in heaven.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Heaven, Nationality

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Believe, Prudent, Progressive

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• I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

  Frances Fox Piven

  Believe, Struggle, People

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• The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Political, Liberty, Politics

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