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Quotes About Equality

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
~ Anatole France
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
~ Learned Hand
Be you never so high, the law is above you.
~ Thomas Fuller
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend is blowin' in the wind.
~ Bob Dylan
Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.
~ JeanJacques Rousseau
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
~ Viscount Samuel
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
~ Cicero
0 liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!
~ Mme. Jeanne Roland
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
~ William Allen White
1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, "A free field and no favor."
~ Woodrow Wilson
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
~ Italian proverb
Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
~ Robert Herrick
One with the law is a majority.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
~ Langdon Mitchell
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.
~ Tobias Wolff
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
~ Ivy ComptonBurnett
Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?
~ Samuel Hoffenstein
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.
~ Rose Macaulay
Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man.
~ Rita Rudner
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
~ Lord Longford
Men's men: be they gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
~ George Eliot
Every man in the world is better than someone else, and not as good as someone else.
~ William Saroyan