Quotes About Equality

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

But the animal has no veil. Dogs better treated than Afghan women. (Même l'animal n'a de voile. Chien mieux traité que l'afghane ?)

Greater cane does not make greater humans. (Une plus grande canne - N'agrandit l'homme.)

No elevator of progress with wells of prejudices. (Pas d'ascenseur de progrès - Avec puits de préjugés.)

The champions of liberty have the medal for any necklace. (Les champions de la liberte - Ont la medaille pour tout collier)

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

Law should be like death, which spares no one.

The love of democracy is that of equality.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

For progressive universalizers, the vision is an egalitarian society leveling the playing field and delivering good jobs and fair rewards across class, race, and gender.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?

We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Doctor, they are very proud, these Nobles; but we common dogs are proud too, sometimes. They plunder us, outrage us, beat us, kill us; but we have a little pride left, sometimes.

But, there is one broad sky over all the world, and whether it be blue or cloudy, the same heaven beyond

Every town-gate and village taxing-house had its band of citizen-patriots, with their national muskets in a most explosive state of readiness, who stopped all comers and goers, cross-questioned them, inspected their papers, looked for their names in lists of their own, turned them back, or sent them on, or stopped them and laid them in hold, as their capricious judgment or fancy deemed best for the dawning Republic One and Indivisible, of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death.

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?