Quotes About Equality

If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be? Not one of you would ever be married. You would be a set of unfortunate bachelors. Not, however, that that would alter you much.

In life there is really no great or small thing. All things are of equal value and of equal size.

Robert, men can love what is beneath them—things unworthy, stained, dishonoured.  We women worship when we love; and when we lose our worship, we lose everything. 

LADY HUNSTANTON Lord Illingworth, you don't think that uneducated people should be allowed to have votes? LORD ILLINGWORTH I think they are the only people who should.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.

Why should there be one law for men, and another for women?

Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognises infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

It would be unfair to expect people to be as remarkable as oneself.

You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a a shame in a woman to be an infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

But, to the philosopher, my dear Gerald, women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Gwendolen.  How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes!  Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.

Women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.

I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours.

My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being.

It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.

Wisdom should be freely available to all men without smart-alecky impediments

Peace without justice and equal opportunity is no Peace.

At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful — now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne only when money puts it there. Democracy is the completed equating of money with political power.

Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty