quotations about equality
Equality begins in the grave.
AMERICAN PROVERB
Equality begins with economic empowerment.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril. We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment or else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy which this Assembly has so laboriously built up.
BHIMRAO RAMJI AMBEDKAR
Writings and Speeches
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
THUCYDIDES
History of the Peloponnesian War
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs.
TERRY EAGLETON
Why Marx Was Right
If all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
MAHATMA GANDHI
attributed, The Photographer's Vision
Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler; a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.
L. LANGSTAFF
attributed, Day's Collacon
Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not being divisive; those fighting to keep those people out are.
JON STEWART
The Late Show, July 21, 2016
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
REX STOUT
The League of Frightened Men
No one enjoys being equal.
DAVID MAMET
Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues
Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs, when placed beneath it.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Equality lies only in human moral dignity.... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The Brothers Karamazov
The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
ERNESTINE L. ROSE
History of Woman Suffrage
Let me take you on a little trip
My supersonic ship's at your disposal
If you feel so inclined. Well alright.
Nobody's gonna travel second class
There'll be equality
THE KINKS
"Supersonic Rocket Ship"
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Democracy in America
The power of equality
Is not yet what it ought to be
It fills me up like a hollow tree
The power of equality
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
"The Power of Equality"
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
MILTON FRIEDMAN
Free to Choose
Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way. Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity.
WILL DURANT
The Lessons of History