Equal Quotes · Page 49

When I was in Holland, the idea was, all cultures are equal and all are to be preserved. My idea was, no,…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

— Max Eastman

No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.

— John Cassian

The fact that gay marriage is legal but women don't have equal rights is so redonkulous that I think it just doesn't…

— Kamala Lopez

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

— Thomas Jefferson

The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and…

— Karl Lagerfeld

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

— Carson McCullers

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

— Leo Tolstoy

You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I…

— Jesse L. Martin

[Envy not for...] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and…

— Pierre Charron

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much…

— Emma Donoghue

How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though…

— Osbert Sitwell

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that…

— Harry S Truman

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

One of the challenges that happened in Europe is that in accepting many Muslim people they didn't explain to them that those…

— Mark Durie

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

China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits…

— Blaise Pascal

For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or…

— Thomas Hobbes

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we…

— Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

the public sphere is as consistently based on the law of equality as the private sphere is based on the law of…

— Hannah Arendt

Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy…

— Florence King

Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all…

— Anonymous

I think you have to take the man at his word [Donald Trump]. Is kind of an equal-opportunity insulter. He started by…

— Hillary Clinton

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature.…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

— Vilfredo Pareto

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

— Anonymous

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

— Aristotle

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

— John Dryden

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up,…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Throughout my career I've fought for the rights of women as full and equal members of society.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men.…

— Ingrid Michaelson

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

— Bobby Scott

“You are to be a queen, Anastasia. You beg no one for anything.” “Not even you?” “Not even me. You are to…

— Vivienne Savage

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

— Will Durant

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

— Michael Ignatieff

You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have…

— Elton John

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

— Maya Angelou

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is…

— Stephen Leacock

“As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?”

— Anthony Liccione