Quotes About Equality

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world; for everyone believes himself to be so well provided with it that even those who are the hardest to please in every other way do not usually want more of it than they already have.

Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée : car chacun pense en être si bien pourvu, que ceux même qui sont les plus difficiles à contenter en toute autre chose, n'ont point coutume d'en désirer plus qu'ils en ont.

thought I had said enough respecting them to show that there is nothing observable in the heavens or stars of our system that must not, or at least may not appear precisely alike in those of the system which I described.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

the book of Leviticus contains the famous commandment "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Lev. 19:18); that is, you shall love your neighbor neither more nor less than yourself.

You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Lev. 19:18) ; that is, you shall love your neighbor neither more nor less than yourself. The rivalries of desires tend to become exasperated, and as they do, they tend to contaminate third parties who are just as addicted as we are to the entanglements of mimetic rivalries.

A mere glance at things as they are is enough to make it clear that the aim is everywhere to reduce everything to uniformity, whether it be human beings themselves or the things among which they live, and it is obvious that such a result can only be obtained by suppressing as far as possible every qualitative distinction.

En este trapo de mundo todos somos sirvientes. ... Sólo que algunos no se dan cuenta.

Diversity enriches the soul. It is at the very essence of the life experience."

Love: always inclusive, never divisive.

Ik erken geen werkelijkheid die vooral voordeel biedt aan net die helft van de mensheid waartoe ik niet behoor. Die houding kan ik iedereen aanbevelen. Voor mij is het niet nodig, de werkelijkheid te begrijpen of te bezweren. Het is nodig, er korte metten mee te maken. Al het andere is capitulatie – collaboratie zelfs.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

The feminist movement has helped open minds and kitchens to the notion that men can be at home on the range.

One of the best ways to get an idea of how a woman feels about being a woman is to take a look at how she treats other women.

Even a first-year law student knows that you can't curtail the right of one person to speak because other people get disorderly.

governments and their official representatives will be strictly neutral on matters of religion: not hostile, not promotional, simply neutral.

work by George Grant called Legislating Immorality, which called for the execution of all gay people, but was kind enough to qualify it in a footnote by saying that in our judicial system we would have to give them a trial first.

We slew the goliath of raciism,but, we now must contend with his offspring.

When I consider myself superior to anyone, as I frequently do, I need a better reason than his skin.

I gathered that with the men the consensus was that women were okay in their place, which I guess was the way cavemen felt about it, and all their male descendants. The question was, and still is, what's their place?

The ideal human agreement is one in which distinctions of race and color and religion are totally disregarded; anyone helping to preserve those distinctions is postponing that ideal; and you are certainly helping to preserve them.