Dumb.com >> Quotes >> Equality Quotes
Equality Quotes
This section contains Equality Quotes


We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. (Quote by - Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. (Quote by - Simone Weil)

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. (Quote by - Robert Ingersoll)

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. (Quote by - Agnes Macphail)

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men. (Quote by - John Randolph)

We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead. (Quote by - Ralph Bunche)

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. (Quote by - Henry Becque)

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. (Quote by - Aristotle)

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. (Quote by - Arthur Ashe)

Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities. (Quote by - Paul Burton)

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. (Quote by - Tocqueville)

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. (Quote by - Florence King)

Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear. (Quote by - Isa Upanishad)

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. (Quote by - Francis Picabia)

The love of democracy is that of equality. (Quote by - Charles Montesquieu)

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. (Quote by - Joseph Farrell)

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. (Quote by - Simone Weil)

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. (Quote by - Ren Descartes)

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: That you are dreadfully like other people. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Pages:  1  2  3  4