Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel de Cervantes

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

Theodore Roosevelt

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin ... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Theodore Bikel

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

Margaret Halsey

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

Michael M. Honda

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

Maureen Reagan

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.

Patricia Ireland

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Patricia Ireland

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Plato

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

Martin Luther

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

Marilyn French

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

Philip James Bailey

The sole equality on earth is death.

Mason Cooley

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

Mason Cooley

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

Martha Plimpton

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

Michael Kinsley

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Mark Twain

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

Abraham Lincoln

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

Basically, it said, 'we support non-discrimination, and equality for all' -- except for gay people.

Benjamin Franklin

Onions can make ev'n Heirs and Widows weep

Anastasia Griffith

I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.

Jenny Shipley

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

Herbert Read

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Evan Esar

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

Evan Esar

The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.

Florence King

By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.

Francis Picabia

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

George Orwell

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Frederick Douglass

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

Ferdinand Mount

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Gender equality is a precondition to overcoming starvation, poverty and epidemics.

Erich Fromm

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.