Quotes About Equality

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

Socialism means equality of income or nothing... under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

An index is a great leveller.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals — would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

I hate all white men, but I hate you less than any white man I have ever known.

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

God bless… Chocolate City… and its vanilla suburbs.

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

George, I know you're tired. But President Lincoln, he didn't free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves."-George's Grandmother.