Quotes About Equality

Extreme law, extreme injustice.

He who listens to the advice of a woman is a fool.

He who trusts a woman and leads an ass will never be free from plague. #InternationalWomensDay

Justice becomes injustice when it makes two wounds on a head which only deserves one

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich. #Satyamevjayate

The more laws the less justice.

The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs. #IWD2020

To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject.

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others

The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

It seems to us that there is only one answer to this question: we must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that everyone, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, the right to live, and that society is bound to share among all, without exception, the means of existence it has at its disposal. We must acknowledge this, and proclaim it aloud, and act upon it.

We do not want to rob any one of his coat, but we wish to give to the workers all those things the lack of which makes them fall an easy prey to the exploiter, and we will do our utmost that none shall lack aught, that not a single man shall be forced to sell the strength of his right arm to obtain a bare subsistence for himself and his babes.

Equality in mutual relations with the solidarity arising from it, this is the most powerful weapon of the animal world in the struggle for existence. And equality is equity.

Should an authoritarian Socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general discontent would soon force it to break up, or to reorganize itself on principles of liberty.

We take men for what they are worth-and that is why we hate the government of man by man

It is a case of PRODUCING THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF GOODS NECESSARY TO THE WELL-BEING OF ALL, WITH THE LEAST POSSIBLE WASTE OF HUMAN ENERGY.

Each discovery, each advance, each increase in the sum of human riches, owes its being to the physical and mental travail of the past and the present. By what right then can anyone whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say - This is mine, not yours?

After bread has been secured,' he wrote presciently, 'leisure is the supreme aim.

All things are for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men have worked in the measure of their strength to produce them, and since it is not possible to evaluate everyone's part in the production of the world's wealth.

No more of such vague formulae as 'The right to work', or 'To each the whole result of his labour'. What we proclaim is the Right to Well-Being: Well-Being for All!

The "right to well-being" means the possibility of living like human beings, and of bringing up children to be members of a society better than ours, whilst the "right to work" only means the right to be always a wage-slave, a drudge, ruled over and exploited by the middle class of the future.

The right to well-being is the Social Revolution, the right to work means nothing but the Treadmill of Commercialism.

And we say, 'Down with the privileges of education, as well as those of birth!' We are anarchists precisely because these privileges revolt us. They revolt us already in this authoritarian society. Could we endure them in a society that began by proclaiming equality?