Quotes About Equality

No society can flourish of which the greater part is poor and miserable

Society may subsist, though not in the most comfortable state, without beneficence; but the prevalence of injustice must utterly destroy it.

Deuxième maxime. - La taxe ou portion d'impôt que chaque individu est tenu de payer doit être certaine, et non arbitraire.

Ninguna sociedad puede ser floreciente y feliz si la mayor parte de sus miembros es pobre y miserable.

Toda persona es rica o pobre según el grado en que pueda disfrutar de las cosas necesarias, convenientes y agradables de la vida.

It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

How wrong they are, these Potentates, to go out like this without dignity, without anything to distinguish them,' wrote Anna Eynard in her diary, 'for it is then that one sees them as men just like any others, and even as less, for they have been placed in the position of being able to achieve more.

To be loved equally," I continued, "is somehow to be loved less. To be loved uniquely—for one's own special self—is to be loved as much as we need to be loved.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

Roberto is a man, and they always said it and I never believed it, but it's true - a man is forgiven. The girl is always at fault. Forever married. People say, 'Roberto did the right thing.' But that's not what they say about me. I'll never be able to make this right. Never. But Roberto already has. He married me, so his debt is cleared.

Bastions of wealth are no deference for the man who treads the grand altar of Justice down and out of sight.

Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.

A world of wealth is trash if men are wanting; men who have no wealth never find fortune smiling as their strength deserves.

You patronize me like some little woman with no mind to call her own. I speak with heart devoid of fear to those with wit to understand, and you can praise me or condemn me as you like, it's all the same to me.

Better no rule than cruel rule.

Like will draw like.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

As the polls began closing in the East, with states like New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Virginia going for Barack Obama, it was quickly becoming clear that this would be an especially bad night for racists all across the country.

Unions gave us the forty-hour workweek, the weekend, and the middle class.

You're not supposed to have to be rich or lucky to have a chance to do great things. Opportunity is supposed to be for everyone. And that's why I'm a Democrat.

One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other - not with one person wanting a fling and the other real love...

It follows that the more people we take to be our equals and compare ourselves to, the more people there will be to envy.

The modern expectation is that there will be equality in all things in the couple—which means, at heart, an equality of suffering.

One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other