Quotes About Balance

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump.

Equality is a mortuary word.

To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Dominating others is not equality.

The worst form of equality is to try to make equal things that are their reciprocal opposite complimentary.

Misogyny… is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.