Equal Quotes
2440 quotes by 1719 authors
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the…
— Paul Krugman
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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference…
— Patrick Henry
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You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by…
— Haruki Murakami
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Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am…
— Nhat Hanh
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There is no delight the equal of dread
— Clive Barker
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From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position,…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The truth is everything in the end. It is the greatest power in the world to make all people equal. If everyone knows what the…
— Mel Odom
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
— Thornton Wilder
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after…
— James A. Baldwin
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Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She…
— E. M. Forster
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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others…
— Jane Austen
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Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.
— James Madison
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To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the three and the…
— Vera Nazarian
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But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian,…
— Vera Nazarian
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When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons…
— Sarah Vowell
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As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses…
— Bell Hooks
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