quotations about equality
If all things were equally in all men, nothing would be prized.
THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
THUCYDIDES
History of the Peloponnesian War
The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not being divisive; those fighting to keep those people out are.
JON STEWART
The Late Show, July 21, 2016
A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.
CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS
The American Enterprise
Nothing is so unequal as equality.
PLINY THE ELDER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Let me take you on a little trip
My supersonic ship's at your disposal
If you feel so inclined. Well alright.
Nobody's gonna travel second class
There'll be equality
THE KINKS
"Supersonic Rocket Ship"
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs.
TERRY EAGLETON
Why Marx Was Right
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of that universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
LORD ACTON
The History of Freedom in Antiquity
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
Short Studies on Great Subjects
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
AYN RAND
The Fountainhead
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
La Duchesse de Langeais
Equality begins with economic empowerment.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
The power of equality
Is not yet what it ought to be
It fills me up like a hollow tree
The power of equality
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
"The Power of Equality"
Peace, love and equality
Your terms
I don't fit into those words
BIKINI KILL
"Blood One"
Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way. Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity.
WILL DURANT
The Lessons of History
People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.
JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
DERRICK A. BELL
Ethical Ambition
How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril. We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment or else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy which this Assembly has so laboriously built up.
BHIMRAO RAMJI AMBEDKAR
Writings and Speeches
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
JANE ADDAMS
Twenty Years at Hull-House