Quotes About Equality

For knowing their own inferiority, I suspect that they are too glad of equality.

it is by justice that we can authentically measure man's value or his nullity... the absence of justice is the absence of what makes him a man

The unjust man enjoys life better than the just. book 2

he really meant to say that justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt.

All men are by nature equal, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him

The law is not concerned with making any one class in the city do outstandingly well, but is contriving to produce this condition in the city as a whole.

It is by justice that we can authentically measure a mans value or nullity.... the absence of justice is the absence of what makes him a man

It is by justice that we can authentically measure a mans value or nullity.... the absence of justice is the absence of why makes him a man

And if there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world.

Even the fragments of his words when 'repeated at second-hand' (Symp.) have in all ages ravished the hearts of men, who have seen reflected in them their own higher nature. He is the father of idealism in philosophy, in politics, in literature. And many of the latest conceptions of modern thinkers and statesmen, such as the unity of knowledge, the reign of law, and the equality of the sexes, have been anticipated in a dream by him.

It is never a bad thing to take up your fair share of space, said Mr. Bunny ambiguously.

We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.

People with disabilities deserve the chance to build a life for themselves in the communities where they choose to live.

It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in order to take his piece of bread is, albeit guiltless, further from the model of thinking man than the most primitive pigmy or the most vicious sadist.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

In every part of the world, wherever you begin by denying the fundamental liberties of mankind, and equality among people, you move toward the concentration camp system, and it is a road on which it is difficult to halt.

On the contrary, I believe it doesn't make much sense to say that one man is worth more than another. One man can be stronger than another but less wise. Or more educated but not so brave. Or more generous but also more stupid. So his value depends on what you want from him; a man can be very good at his job, and worthless if you set him to do some other job.

Dissention, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you are not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, but you are not.

Ich begreife nicht, ich ertrage nicht, dass man einen Menschen nicht nach dem beurteilt, was er ist, sondern nach der Gruppe, der er zufällig angehört.

Ik kan niet begrijpen, niet verdragen dat men een mens beoordeelt niet naar wat hij is, maar naar de groep waar hij toevallig toe behoort.

un país se considera tanto más desarrollado cuanto más sabias y eficientes son las leyes que impiden al miserable ser demasiado miserable y al poderoso ser demasiado poderoso.

The hardworking poor should receive wages and bread.

But none of us can claim an innate spiritual advantage. In reality, we are all equally disadvantaged. None of us naturally seeks after God, none is inherently righteous, none instinctively does good (cf. Romans 3:9-18). Therefore, as children of grace, our spiritual discipline is everything — everything! I repeat . . . discipline is everything!