Quotes About Equality

Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway. 'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream. 'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I said resentfully. 'Huh?' said Lester.

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy....Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

Feminist ideology about the goal of gender-neutrality and the absence of innate differences between males and females goes out the window when it comes to the subject of domestic violence.

Et puis vous vous rendez compte que l'amour n'est ni dépendance, ni possessivité, ni convenance, ni négation de soi ou de l'autre. (p.233)

True friendship can exist only between equals.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse

I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of [c] the stronger.

The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.

May not 'the wolf,' as the proverb says, 'claim a hearing'?

But whether the just have a better and happier life than the unjust is a further question which we also proposed to consider.

Then, I said, no science or art considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker?

Then, if women are to have the same duties as men, they must have the same nurture and education? Yes. The education which was assigned to the men was music and gymnastic. Yes. Then women must be taught music and gymnastic and also the art of war, which they must practise like the men? That is the inference, I suppose. I

And as they have nothing but their persons which they can call their own, suits and complaints will have no existence among them; they will be delivered from all those quarrels of which money or children or relations are the occasion. Of course they will. Neither

when equality is given to unequal things, the resultant will be unequal...

There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the same state to any considerable extent; one or the other will be disregarded.

It is by justice, that we can truly authenticate a man's value or nullity, the absence of justice, is the absence of what makes him man. Plato

For men born and educated like our citizens, the only way, in my opinion, of arriving at a right conclusion about the possession and use of women and children is to follow the path on which we originally started, when we said that the men were to be the guardians and watchdogs of the herd. True.

They are always either the masters or servants and never the friends of anybody; the tyrant never tastes of true freedom or friendship.

the just does not desire more than his like but more than his unlike, whereas the unjust desires more than both his like and unlike

Do not expect justice where might is right.

And if so, my friend, I said, there is no special faculty of administration in a state which a woman has because she is a woman, or which a man has by virtue of his sex, but the gifts of nature are alike diffused in both; all the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women also, but in all of them a woman is inferior to a man. Very true. Then

No science or art considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker

o semelhante sempre do semelhante se aproxima.