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Source: The Spirit of Laws

“No one enjoys being equal.”

Enjoy Equal Equality Being Equal

Author:David Mamet

“Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.”

Men Night Hours Equal Equality Rising Morrow

Book:Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life by Mrs. Gaskell

Source: Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life by Mrs. Gaskell

“Equality begins with economic empowerment.”

Economic Empowerment Equality Economic Empowerment

Author:George H. W. Bush

“We are not all equal, nor can we be so.”

Equal Equality

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella

“People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.”

People Individual Community Results Conditions Skills Capacity Fortune Equality Inequality

Book:A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

“God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.”

Trying Made Would Be Certain Equality Arrangements Interference

Book:The League of Frightened Men

Source: The League of Frightened Men

“America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.”

Years Persons Ideas America Nations Liberty Millions Endure Equality Triumph Brutal Testament Liberty And Equality

Author:Nick Rahall

“The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.”

Way Young Used Justice Rights Movement Murder Workers Equality Civil Rights African American Civil Rights Movement Mississippi Intimidation Equality And Justice Civil Right Movement

Author:Charles Rangel

“That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.”

Break Equality Legs Privacy Ants Liable

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!”

“A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.”

Poor Rich Becoming Commitment Males Equality Murderer

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”

People Death Dies Work Common Equality Equality Of People Equality For All Fidgeting

Author:Bob Dylan

“Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.”

Duty Equal Members Slavery Prison Slave Bounds Equality Great Things Spy

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.”

Capacity Equality Indispensable Hold Fast

Author:John Foster Dulles

“A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.”

Men Equality

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.”

Men Long Slave Equality Knaves

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.”

Ifs Trying Justice Balance Come Up Equality Scales Equality And Justice Work Relationships Scales Of Justice

Author:Judy Sheindlin

“Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.”

Men Humanity Belief Liberty Equality Doctrine Brotherhood Fatherhood Brotherhood Of Man

Book:Mr. Coolidge's Address on Secondary Education

Source: Mr. Coolidge's Address on Secondary Education

“I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.”

Thinking Knows Men Equal Equality Treated

Book:Berthe Morisot

Source: Berthe Morisot

“On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.”

Hands Law Practice Theory Embrace Equality Immigration Immigration Laws

Book:You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler

Source: You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler

“All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.”

Men Mean Certain Politics Liberty Rights Independent Safety Property Equality Enjoyment Inherent Posterity Possessing Obtaining Compact

Author:George Mason

“We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.”

Children Different Country Causes Justice United Common Behinds Equality Fairness Fairness And Equality

Author:Barbara Boxer

“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”

Love Life Inspirational God Wisdom Science Wise Humility Equal Equality Foolish Being Equal Equality Of People Equality For All

Author:Albert Einstein

“If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.”

Ifs Law Violence Equality Women Empowerment Nonviolence Non Violence Empowered Women Libel Women Equality Violence And Peace

Book:A Gandhi Reader

Source: A Gandhi Reader

“People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.”

People Differences Beauty Definitions Equality Similarity Susceptible Equality Of People Equality For All

Author:Linda Ellerbee

“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.”

“More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.”

Country Reality Development Understood Equality Empowering Women Sisterhood Prerequisites Equality Of People

Author:Kofi Annan

“The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.”

Men Heart Philosophy Light Opportunity Individual Belief Capacity Dignity Equality Inequality Equality Of Man

Author:Milton Friedman

“The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.”

Ifs Mean Persons Individual One Thing Color Equal Equality Protection Inequality Guarantees Equal Protection

Author:Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

“Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.”

Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

“While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.”

Men Mean Able Wish Ability Conditions Masters Mass Capitalism Majority Profit Equality Superiors Inferiors Gifted Superiority Superior Man Egalitarianism

Book:Money, method, and the market process: essays

Source: Money, method, and the market process: essays

“An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which they themselves are supreme and are served by the elite of the most talented men.”

Men Mass Intellectual Equality Supreme Manifest Elites Inferiority Abolition Egalitarianism

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor's.”

Men World Should Humans Persons Different Facts Life Is Opportunity Games Individual Born Race Mark Mere Equality Neighbor Human Life Diverse Identical Different Place Egalitarianism

Author:Murray Rothbard

“I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.”

Should Humans Justice Human Beings Equality Ants

Book:Scientific Lectures and Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

Source: Scientific Lectures and Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.”

Thinking Made Ideas Government Causes Males Equality Gender Parliament Glowing Gender Equality

Author:Ed Miliband

“Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.”

Way Findings Rewards Equality

Author:Rowan Williams

“Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.”

Use Earth Liberty Security Equal Equality

Author:Benjamin Tucker

“I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.”

Knows Believe Social Don't Believe Equality Social Equality

Author:George Smathers

“A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.”

People Law Liberty Endure Equality Cherish Rule Of Law Resilient Liberty And Equality

Author:Nick Rahall

“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.”

People Mean Moral Rights Equality Obligation Agency

Book:Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

“We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.”

Literature Opportunity Equality Equality Of Opportunity

Author:Ferdinand Mount

“Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.”

Nations Community Conditions Equality Multinationals Yugoslavia Equality For All

Author:Slobodan Milosević

“In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.”

Humans Has Beens States Simple Known Economy Virtue Greater Pure Increase Species Equality Manners Human Species

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.”

Values Individual Nations United Principles Rights Mankind Century Equal Achievement Equality 20th Century United Nations Equal Rights Charter Great Achievement Humanistic

Author:Tran ?uc Luong

“Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.”

Kind Ends Fighting Games Losing Okay Equality

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“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.”

Way Would Be Equal Fairs Property Equality Protection Activism Cherish Recipes Judicial Clauses Misused Equal Protection Judicial Activism

Author:Michael Kinsley

“Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?”

People Want Liberty Equality Fraternity

Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski

“Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.”

Asks Responsibility Liberty Violence Equality Bread Denied Repression

Author:Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

“In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.”

Dream Law Values Stuff Liberty Equality Paris Rule Of Law Nicaragua

Author:Bianca Jagger

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