E Quotes
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“Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.”
“Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.”
“Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.”
“Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.”
“Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.”
Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice
“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
“Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.”
Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States
“Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.”
Source: Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus
“Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.”
“Equality,' said Steerpike,' is the thing. It is the only true and central premise from which constructive ideas can radiate freely and be operated without prejudice. Absolute equality of status. Equality of wealth. Equality of power.”
Source: Titus Groan
“Equality says we treat everyone the same, regardless of headwinds or tailwinds. Equity says we give people what they need to have the same access and opportunities as others, taking into account the headwinds they face, which may mean differential treatment for some groups.”
Source: The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
“Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.”
“Equality, though conceived very largely in America, des not extend so low down as to an emigrant.”
Source: Across the Plains
“Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.”
“Equality will cost you your luxurious life
If a Black woman can’t vote
If a brown baby can’t be fed
If we all don’t have the same opportunity America promised”
“Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.”
“Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.”
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, absolutely, that's what defines us. It's what makes us great. If it doesn't sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that's us. We're equal”
“Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.”
“Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.”
“Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.”
“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.”
“Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.”
“Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.”
“Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha”
Source: The Dharma Bums
“Equally essential is a nourishing emotional connection, in particular the quality of attunement. Attunement, a process in which the parent is "tuned in" to the child's emotional needs, is a subtle process. It is deeply instinctive but easily subverted when the parent is stressed or distracted emotionally, financially or for any other reason. Attunement may also be absent if the parent never received it in his or her childhood. Strong attachment and love exist in many parent-child relationships but without attunement. Children in non-attuned relationships, may feel loved but on a deeper level do not experience themselves as being appreciated for who they really are. They learn to present only their "acceptable" side to the parent, repressing emotional responses the parent rejects and learning to reject themselves for even having such responses”
Source: When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
“Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always largely been an agricultural country, and that even before the wars destroyed lands and irrigation canals, only 5 per cent of the land was cultivable.”
“Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.”
Source: Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)
“Equally, it does not mean that Christian beliefs cause more distortion than other ideological beliefs. This emerged with particular clarity in engaging with the opinion that Jesus did not exist. This view is demonstrably false. It is fuelled by a regrettable form of atheist prejudice, which holds all the main primary sources, and Christian people, in contempt. This is not merely worse than the American Jesus Seminar, it is no better than Christian fundamentalism. It simply has different prejudices.”
Source: Jesus of Nazareth: An Independent Historian's Account of his Life and Teaching
“equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.”
Source: The Possibility of Altruism
“Equally, the legal codes do seem to genuinely recognise a woman's claim to the integrity of her body and person---for herself rather than merely as an extension of her kin. There were laws against unwanted touching without violence , with penalties that varied according to the part of the body on which a man laid hand or lips.”
Source: Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
“Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediaries between oneself and the rest of creation. To abuse them was immediately to set oneself adrift from true being. Words need to be coaxed to reveal a little of their true nature, so as to close the breach that exists between the writer and the universe. The world is not something alien against which man is in conflict. Rather man and cosmos exist in reciprocal motion. We are not cast adrift in an alien or meaningless environment. The universe is intimate with us and, as Breton insisted, it is a cryptogram to be deciphered.”
Source: Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
“Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.”
“Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.”
“Equals make the best friends.”
Source: Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories
“Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.”
“Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.”
“Equanimity can be hard to talk about.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind.”
Source: The Four Sublime States & The Practice of Loving Kindness: Contemplations on Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, and Equanimity & As Taught by the Buddha in the Pali Canon
“Equanimity is calamity's medicine.”
“Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.”
“Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.”
Source: Tablets
“Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.”
Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“Equanimity is the state when you are unmoved. When all states seem the same: Joy and sorrow, victory and defeat, success and failure, gain and loss; neither a high, nor a low – none of these states can then affect your equilibrium. There will surely be a momentary blip when any event occurs that causes an emotional response. Metaphorically, it is like what happens when you throw a stone into a placid lake. There will be ripples, a few waves may be generated, but the lake’s water will soon go back to being calm and peaceful. This unmoved state, equanimity, can be attained only through training your mind. You can and must train your mind, just as you train your body. When your mind is in your control, you are unmoved. Only when you are unmoved do you really experience true Happiness.”
“Equanimity is when abhorrence does not arise during the circumstances of abhorrence and attachment does arise during the circumstances of attachment.”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).”