E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.”
“Equality doesn't mean ensuring everybody is the same, it means making sure some people don't get godlike power to determine the fates of others.”
Source: Why You Should Be a Socialist
“Equality for women is progress for all.”
“Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it.”
“Equality in America has never meant literal equality of condition or capacity. There will always be inequalities in character and ability in any society. Equality has meant rather that in the words of the Declaration of Independence, "All men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." It is meant that in a democratic society there should be no inequalities in opportunities or in freedoms.”
Source: A Nation Of Immigrants
“Equality in the realm of sex is an antisexual idea if sex requires dominance in order to register as sensation.”
Source: Intercourse
“Equality is a dream in a marriage where his sacrifices are expected, but hers are celebrated.”
Source: Mr. - Untold story of husbands
“Equality is a mortuary word.”
Source: Fry: Plays Two
“Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.”
Source: Path of Destruction
“Equality is a nice idea, but it's entirely impossible to prove.”
“Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."”
“Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.”
Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.”
“Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.”
Source: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Social Contract; or principles of political right. Translated from the French
“Equality is never given, it is taken.”
“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.”
“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need Equality, and we kind of need it now. 'So why do you write these strong female characters?' Because you're still asking that question.”
“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.”
“Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.”
“Equality is not possible in a society based on religion. For religion is the basis of all inequality.”
“Equality is not possible. The pursuit of equality, however, people really love that. For some reason, people attach the most wonderful of motives to people who say they see all this inequality out there and need to fix it. It's just not fair. You'll hear it manifest itself in discussions about the so-called widening gap between the rich and the poor or the widening gap between men and women. It's like actually two twin beds.”
“Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“Equality is not the erasure of difference, but the protection of dignity.”
“Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.”
Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens
“Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.”
“Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.”
“Equality is the planning committee.
Diversity is being invited to the party
Inclusion is being invited to the dance
Belonging is choosing a song”
Source: Representation Matters: Becoming an anti-racist educator
“Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
“Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.”
“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”
Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789
“Equality is the tune of our generation.”
“Equality is the tune of our generation. Together as one. Let's pull the strings in our togetherness to make good music.”
“Equality is truly sweet.”
“Equality is what does not exist among mortals.”
“Equality is when you are more rational about the issue at hand. While equity is the emotional side of the coin. Like empathy. Head and tail, but it's still the same coin.”
“Equality is. one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler--a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hard-earned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity.”
Source: Salmagundi: Or, The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. [pseud.] and Others ....
“Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.”
Source: Annihilation of Caste
“Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.”
“Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.”
“Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.”
“Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.”
“Equality means giving everyone a helping hand or the opportunity to succeed in life.”
“Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.”
“Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.”
“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and respect given to every American, regardless of socioeconomic status.”
Source: Critical Masses: Who Wins, Who Loses, Who Decides
“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of modern mankind. The more equal conditions are, the less explanation there is for the differences that actually exist between people; and thus all the more unequal do individuals and groups become. This perplexing consequence came fully to light as soon as equality was no longer seen in terms of an omnipotent being like God or an unavoidable common destiny like death. Whenever equality becomes a mundane fact in itself, without any gauge by which it may be measured or explained, then there is one chance in a hundred that it will be recognized simply as a working principle of a political organization in which otherwise unequal people have equal rights; there are ninety-nine chances that it will be mistaken for an innate quality of every individual, who is “normal” if he is like everybody else and “abnormal” if he happens to be different. This perversion of equality from a political into a social concept is all the more dangerous when a society leaves but little space for special groups and individuals, for then their differences become all the more conspicuous.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Equality of economic opportunity, in the context of private property, means equality of opportunity for the millions of capital-less households of today to buy, pay for, and employ in their lives the non-human factor of production, capital.”
“Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.”