Equality Quotes

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. (Honoré de Balzac)
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. View quote
Malcolm X
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. View quote
J. M. Barrie
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. View quote
Iris Murdoch
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. View quote
Anatole France
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. View quote
Erich Fromm
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. View quote
Aristotle
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. View quote
Kim Campbell
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. (Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar)
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. View quote
Irving Kristol
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. View quote
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Liberty, equality - bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
What we need is equality without conformity. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them. View quote
Steve Martin
The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue to impose it with judgment and equality to employ it economically and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds. View quote
Edmund Burke