When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for…

— Gorgias

We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don't think…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

— Peter Akinola

Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality…

— Aristotle

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

— Tony Dungy

Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

— Alice Paul

All men are created Equal. Some just have more Splenda.

— Jarod Kintz

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

— Thomas Jefferson

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I certainly embrace all the movement that's going on these days about equality for women and equal rights. In general, I would apply that…

— Julie Andrews

Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

— Barack Obama

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the…

— Simone Weil

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…

— Aristotle