Equal Quotes · Page 13

No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than that of a mother teaching her children.

— Boyd K. Packer

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look…

— Annie Lennox

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

— Jayne Mansfield

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him…

— Thomas Hobbes

The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Happy is love or friendship when returned-- The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.

— Bion of Smyrna

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.

— Ryan McGinley

I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.

— Martin Van Buren

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

— Seneca the Younger

Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Crying does not equal good acting.

— Maxine Peake

Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not…

— Plutarch

Whenever I travel to a poor country, I try to help at least one person. Usually, that person helps me just as…

— William T. Vollmann

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

— Thomas Jefferson

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

— Sima Samar

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard…

— Michel Gondry

Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a…

— Walter Kasper

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

— Confucius

Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's…

— Mia Freedman

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

— Anonymous

That's the fundamental question. Do we have a check and balance system? Do we have three equal branches or do we have…

— Mike Huckabee

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

— Nicolas Gomez Davila