Quotes About Equality

They say a hundred-and-thirty-pound woman has no chance against an athletic two-hundred-pound man. That's a lie. You just have to make a decision to hurt him and then do it.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.

If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.

That kings should be philosophers, or philosophers kings is neither to be expected nor to be desired, for the possession of power inevitably corrupts reason's free judgment. However, that kings or sovereign peoples (who rule themselves by laws of equality) should not allow the class of philosophers to disappear or to be silent, but should permit them to speak publicly is indispensable to the enlightenment of their affairs.

Thus there is an analogy between the juridical relation of human actions and the mechanical relation of moving forces. I never can do anything to another man without giving him a right to do the same to me on the same conditions; just as no body can act with its moving force on another body without thereby causing the other to react equally against it.

Tutto ciò che è stato scritto dagli uomini sulle donne deve essere ritenuto sospetto dal momento che essi sono ad un tempo giudici e parti in causa.

A learned woman might just as well have a beard, for that expresses in a more recognizable form the profundity for which she strives.

The only quality necessary for being a citizen (i.e., a co-legislator), other than the natural one (that he is neither a child nor a woman), is that he be his own master, consequently that he have some property to support himself.

Freedom is alone the unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independent of the will and co-action of every other…

I swear here and now never again to take out my bitterness, no matter how justifiable, on a group of people, whatever their race, religion, convictions, prejudices, errors. I feel sorry for these poor children.

But why are we always the ones who have to suffer?" she cried out in indignation. "Us and people like us? Ordinary people, the lower middle classes.

People are inherently dignified, and they are only made undignified if they are placed in situations that are demeaning.

It is a paradox that the more egalitarian society becomes, the more important an individual's genes will be. Where opportunity is completely open – should a child's background ever become entirely irrelevant in their attainment – innate advantages will still create division.

Bueno, hay un par de homosexuales; pero eso son anormales normales.

no race or culture has a monopoly on wartime cruelty.

Love is no respecter of ages, everyone knows that.

She could have a good career. She could be secretary to some interesting man.' 'I don't want her to be secretary to some interesting man,' said Mor, 'I want her to be an interesting woman and have someone else be her secretary.

Love is the only justice.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd witnessed it within my own community and decided that it was something I wanted to be part of, I smile.

Rents bir keresinde, polisin ve yarg?çlar?n görev duygusunu tetiklemek için esmer bi tenden daha iyisi yoktur, demiÅŸti; çok doÄŸru.