Quotes About Equality

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

It's sometimes difficult for employees to respect individual differences in their coworkers. Often I remind our various staff groups that we treat everyone fairly and honestly—but we don't treat them all the same.

At the time of the Russian emancipation, about 20 percent of the Russian population lived in serfdom. In the United States at this time, about 10 percent of the population lived in slavery.

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

There are no commandments against love," he said.

Partnerships should be equal. You can protect her, yes, but shouldn't she also be able to protect you?

A woman should judge priests for herself, as she would any other man. When they make demands you think unfair, speak to the king's man at Caer Larat.

Most importantly for me, historical accuracy also meant this could not be a story of only straight, white, nondisabled men. Crips, queers, women and other genders, and people of colour are an integral part of the history of Britain—we are embedded at every level of society, present during every change, and part of every problem and its solution. We are here now; we were there then. So we are in this story.

Not all were Anglisc, but they drank and shouted and boasted alike.

It was only now that she understood, for the first time, that despite her title, her uniform, and the two stars on her shoulder, she was as helpless as any native herder or farmer or sailor.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Instead of looking for explanations for the fact of inequality, anthropologists should look for the explanation for the notion of equality.

To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more

The tissues of society become cancerous when the duties of some are transformed into the rights of others.

A partisan of equality who is not envious can only be so because he is stupid.

Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.

Leveling is the barbarian's substitute for order.

Universal suffrage in the end does not recognize any of the individual's rights except the "right" to be alternately oppressor or oppressed.

There is something definitively vile about the man who only admits equals, who does not tirelessly seek out his betters.

Equality of opportunity" does not mean the possibility for all to be decent, but the right of all not to be decent.

Sowohl die heidnische wie auch die romantische Liebe ist unschuldig; lasterhaft ist nur die satte und hygienische Sexulaität zwischen Gleichen.

Society tends to be unjust, but not in the way the conceited imagine. There are always more masters who do not deserve their position than servants who do not deserve theirs.

The egalitarian passion is a perversion of the critical sense: atrophy of the faculty of discrimination.