Quotes About Equality

Mia?em okazj? ogl?da? fabryk? w formie panoramicznej: azjatyccy robotnicy w maskach, czapkach, wystrojeni w turkusowe bluzy byli ca?kiem do siebie podobni. Zadr?a?em... Czy taki w?a?nie by? nasz los? Wydaje nam si?, ?e jeste?my nadzwyczajni, chocia? pochodzimy z tej samej formy? Podobni nawet w przekonaniu o swojej wyj?tkowo?ci...

Kto coÅ› poznaÅ', ustÄ™puje temu, kto to pokochaÅ', lecz ten, kto kocha, nie dorównuje temu, kto siÄ™ zachwyca.

Do pogardy dla wierzÄ…cego dochodzi pogarda dla dzikusa. (...) Oto co myÅ›lÄ… te nasze trze?we umysÅ'y! Po co oÅ›wieca? tubylca? Po co pozbawia? go korzeni, oferujÄ…c mu ateizm? Có? by na tym zyskaÅ' w tym wrogim Å›rodowisku? W rzeczywistoÅ›ci uwa?ajÄ…, ?e to normalne, gdy modli siÄ™ Afrykanin, lecz irytujÄ…ce, gdy robi to Europejczyk, poniewa? ich zdaniem Europejczyk jest lepszy od Afrykanina.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Equality today means "sameness," rather than "oneness." It is the sameness of abstractions, of the men who work in the same jobs, who have the same amusements, who read the same newspapers, who have the same feelings and the same ideas.

Meister Eckhart on this topic: "If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man. Thus he is a great and righteous person who, loving himself, loves all others equally."[14]

Contemporary society preaches this ideal of unindividualized equality because it needs human atoms, each one the same, to make them function in a mass aggregation, smoothly, without friction; all obeying the same commands, yet everybody being convinced that he is following his own desires. Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called "equality.

no man must be the means for the ends of another man.

Die Liebe ist das Kind der Freiheit, niemals der Beherrschung

Ma la donna non è un uomo evirato, e la sua sessualità è tipicamente femminile e non di natura maschile.

Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. It is clear that respect is possible only if I have achieved independence; if I can stand and walk without needing crutches, without

Surely,' she said, much quieter, more reasonable, 'surely you've been with other women?' His glance at her was dry. 'What do you think?' She looked away at random. 'I think that it appears we have a double standard, here. Men can have sex, women can't. Who, then, do the men have sex with?

women had more prominence and power in society in the third millennium bce than they did 2,000 years later.

I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.

I have no particular desire for a man's guidance. And if you think it will be your duty to guide me after we are wed, then you had better reconsider your role as a husband.

Being a bastard is not a bad thing; it is merely a fact. Like having red hair or blue eyes. It does not tell you the character of the person in question.

All things being equal, he preferred to do business with people who were sane.

Sometimes I think if there was a third sex men wouldn't get so much as a glance from me.

Nilai Kemanusiaan kita ditantang secara kasar manakala keragaman di antara kita dipampatkan secara semena-mena ke dalam satu sistem kategorisasi tunggal yang semena-mena

Kita akan sanggup mengubah suatu kebudayaan dengan cara memberikan para perempuan anak bangsa alat yang tepat untuk tumbuh terdidik agar mereka dapat menolong diri sendiri. (Amartya Sen)

It is hard to escape the general conclusion that economic performance, social opportunity and political voice are deeply interrelated.

Effective elementary education has in practice ceased to be free in substantial parts of the country, which of course is a violation of a basic right.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

People marched not just because of what Donald Trump did, but because of what all the Donald Trumps have always done. Women marched not just because a woman had lost, but because we too were all done with losing.