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“Away with that folly that her rights would be detrimental to her character - that if she were recognized as the equal to a man she would cease to be a woman!”

Ifs Men Character Would Be Rights Equal Cease Folly Detrimental

Author:Ernestine Rose

“Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.”

Thinking Needs Writing Persons Self Would Be Walks Fiction Ignorance Equal Tradition Tasks Lifetime Library Average Genuine Genre Novelists Arrogance Bookstores Average Person Hubris

Author:Laura Lippman

“One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established precedents on clean air, clean water, privacy, equal opportunity and religious liberty.”

“The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.”

Ifs Men Mind Wells Would Be Common Virtue Wise Equal Defense Common Sense Despise Homely

Author:Don Herold

“The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".”

Ends Would Be Justice Existence Equal Doctrine Being True Inequality Poison Venomous Justice Equality True Justice

Book:Twilight of the Idols

Source: Twilight of the Idols

“That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.”

Men Would Be Secret Principles Path Equal Destruction Agents Nothingness Hostile Weariness Dissolution

Book:On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

“It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.”

Ifs Would Be Strange Equal All Things Universal Miraculous

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“A question arises regarding the angels who dwell with us, serve us and protect us, whether their joys are equal to those of the angels in heaven, or whether they are diminished by the fact that they protect and serve us. No, they are certainly not; for the work of the angels is the will of God, and the will of God is the work of the angels; their service to us does not hinder their joy nor their working. If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.”

Ifs Doe Facts Would Be Joy Heaven Tree Ready Protect Equal Angel Arise Gods Will Hinder Pluck Caterpillars Angel In Heaven Protect And Serve

Book:Meister Eckhart's Sermons

Source: Meister Eckhart's Sermons

“In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.”

People Government Would Be Principles Democracy Share Influence Equal Fairs Roots Foundation Privilege Contrary Inequality Representation Sections

Author:John Stuart Mill

“We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.”

Ifs Should States Would Be Able Values Interest Justice Equal Authority Asking Despotism Equal Justice

Author:Richard Mitchell

“Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird.”

“This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace, some things having died off, some sprouting in their first spring, but all of equal and utter rightness.”

Firsts Would Be Earth Lasts Perfect Tree Special Rocks Ought Equal Spring Miracle Died Winter Snow Autumn Pace Moss

Author:Jean Liedloff

“the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”

“Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.”

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953

“I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Children Would Be Running Position Equal Our Children Investment Honestly Doomed Idealistic Position Of Power

Author:Meryl Streep

“In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.”

Mean Doe Facts Might Would Be Science Religion Possibility Evolution Tomorrow Equal Degrees Physics Merit Apples Classroom Scientific Facts Rotten Apples

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.”

Ifs World Ideas Would Be Remember Work Half Wife Husband Equal Equality Accomplished Amazed Suggestions Indignant

Author:Margaret Oliphant

“The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.”

“In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.”

Firsts States Would Be United Class United States Car Equal Paint Satisfied Passengers Railroads

Author:Owen Wister

“If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!”

Ifs Feels Should Reason Would Be Spiritual Law Understanding Memories Hell Equal Conscious Madness Fancy Anarchy Our Memories Spiritual Beings

Author:John Milton

“The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.”

Ifs Thinking Reason Would Be Hate Equal I Hate Publicists

Author:Adam Carolla

“I`ve spend my whole life hating and loving my brother with equal measure. I never though I would be the one to help drive a stake through his heart.”

Heart Whole Helping Would Be Hate Brother Equal Whole Life My Brother Stakes

Author:Rebecca

“If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.”

Ifs Years Whole Would Be Given Position Equal South South Africa Manhood Given Up Suffrage

Author:Jan Smuts

“Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth? ... In most large concerns it would be worth more in dollars and cents to have the goodwill of the working force than of those on the outside. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the average working force is capable of increasing its production 25% or more whenever the workers fell so inclined. Workers animated by ill will cannot possibly give results equal to those of workers animated by goodwill. The tragic fact appears to be that a tremendous number of working forces are not so animated.”

Giving Has Beens Facts Would Be Force Results Numbers Equal Capable Concern Dollars Workers Average Ill Productions Tragic Cents Employers Animated Goodwill Ill Will

Author:B. C. Forbes

“... there are those who believe that mathematics can sustain itself and grow without any further contact with anything outside itself, and those who believe that nature is still and always will be one of the main (if not the main) sources of mathematical inspiration. The first group is identified as "pure mathematicians" (though "purist" would be more adequate) while the second is, with equal inadequacy, referred to as "applied".”

Ifs Firsts Believe Stills Inspiration Would Be Grows Groups Source Pure Equal Mathematics Contact Mathematical Mathematician Adequate Inadequacy

Author:Mark Kac

“I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.”

“I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen.”

Knows Trying Made Ends Happens Would Be Difficult Realizing Forget Situation Cutting Subjects Objects Produce Balance Succeed Equal Creating Cameras Sensitive Spectators Optimal Equal Power

Author:Pipilotti Rist

“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”

“Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rogers, "We sweat the same. We struggle the same." Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. for it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race. Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.”

“When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat.”

Art Would Be Felt Equal Rats Fellowship Crow Alphabet Endowment

Author:Norman Lock

“Frankly speaking, I could never even imagine that such information would be of interest to the American public or that the campaign headquarters of one of the candidates - in this case, Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton - apparently worked for her, rather than for all the Democratic Party candidates in an equal manner. I could never assume that anybody would find it interesting.”

Would Be Interest Interesting Party Cases Imagine Information Equal Assuming Democratic Clinton Campaigns Candidates Imagine That Democratic Party Headquarters Never Assume

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, knows Hillary is an unsavory and unethical scoundrel, an obvious and accomplished liar and, if America had a real Justice Department that actually cared about serving up equal justice under the law, she would be facing a number of felony charges.”

Ifs Knows Real Would Be America Law Justice Numbers Equal Clinton Including Obvious Accomplished Department Serving Liars Scoundrels Unethical Felony Equal Justice

Author:Ted Nugent

“The idea is that to grasp an idea like equality or justice, you can't look at the equal and just or unjust things in the world around you, you have to somehow ascend to or maybe remember some kind of idea of equality and justice and this would be a Platonic form, and it would be different from the things that partake in the form.”

World Looks Kind Ideas Different Would Be Remember Form Justice Equal Unjust Platonic Equality And Justice

Author:Peter Adamson

“It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.”

People Ifs Needs Wells May Hard Helping Bigs Would Be Fall House Nations Break Hard Work Equal Ordinary Machines Bottom Russia Block Communist Swings Backwards Eastern Ladders Tipping Bulgaria

Author:Robin Leach

“Men in America were terrified that if women got an equal say in society, the system would collapse and their lives would be valued less. Whites in America were scared that if blacks obtained their freedom and equality, the system would collapse and their lives would be devalued. Heterosexuals are terrified that the psychotic institution of marriage will collapse if gays are given their right to marry. And humans are terrified that if animals are liberated and no longer viewed as inferior subordinates, human life will be valued less.”

Ifs Men Humans Would Be America Given Animal Gay Equal Institutions Scared Human Life Collapse Inferiors Terrified Liberated Subordinates Psychotic Freedom And Equality

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment, and it's all just decency and common sense and patriotism. And in other parts of the country that would be, like, inconceivable.”

People Country Would Be Care Common Talking Liberty Environment Rights Gay Equal Common Sense Smoke Marijuana Decency Equal Rights Civil Liberties Gay People

Author:Rick Steves

“If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.”

Ifs Trying Would Be Winning Equal Shots Tradition Starting Ruins Upset Outcomes Gates Engineers Dictator Charlatans

Author:Ben Stein

“If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.”

Ifs Would Be Imagination Race Mankind Emotional Equal Thirds Intelligent Equality Stable Imaginative Select Energetic Presenting Different Cultures Cultural Diversity

Book:Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)

“It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.”

Would Be Opportunity Comedy Tvs Equal Negative Ridiculous Say Anything Equal Opportunity

Author:Flip Wilson

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”

Should Believe Sometimes Might Would Be Decision Animal Equal Farms Comrade Dystopia Wrong Decision Animalism

Book:Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

“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, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.”

People Ifs Way Different Facts Would Be Law Results Liberty Economic Achieve Position Materials Conflict Equal Treats Investing Equality Libertarian Inequality

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.”

World Life Made Whole Hands Would Be Earth Used Turns Felt Morning Fire Saws Equal Harmony Whole World Every Morning Again And Again Replaced Another World New Earth Shabby

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew that for each tremor of pleasure they would pay with an equal measure of pain. As though they knew that how far they went would be measured against how far they would be taken.”

Body Would Be Pain Pleasure Pay Taken Equal Terror Rhythm Biology

Author:Arundhati Roy

“If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham’s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home.”

“D'you ever wonder what it would be like if our positions were reversed?' I ask. At Jack's puzzled look I continue. 'If we whites were in charge instead of you Crosses?' 'Can't say it's ever crossed my mind,' Jack shrugs. 'I used to think about it a lot,' I sigh. 'Dreams of living in a world with no more discrimination, no more prejudice, a fair police force, an equal justice system, equality of education, equality of life, a level playing field.”

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