Equal Quotes - Page 8

• Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• True Christians are not bigoted and this is actually not a matter of equality, no matter how often it is referred to as equal marriage. Civil partnerships are equal to marriage - they might not have the same name but they are equal.

  Robert Flello

  Christian, Gay, Names

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• It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Winning, Males, Fiction

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• To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

  Isaac Newton

  Action, Reactions, Action And Reaction

  Principia Mathematica "Laws of Motion" 3 (1687) (translation by Andrew Motte)

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• The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Equality, Egalitarianism

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• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

  Rebecca West

  Girly, Time, Peace

  The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913

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• There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Freedom, Equality, America

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, Part I, 1835.

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• Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

  George MacDonald

  Friendship, Trust, Tragedy

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.4026, e-artnow

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• One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Men, Years

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.343

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• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Selfless, Spirit

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• There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

  Hugo Black

  Men, Justice, Trials

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• Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

  Lucy Stone

  Numbers, Justice, Fearless

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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• When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Thinking, Despair

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

  Jasper Fforde

  Science, Opposites, Experts

  Jasper Fforde (2011). “One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

  Moliere

  Passion, Literature, Matter

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• Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Equality, Rights

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  In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Equality, Men, Law

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.156, Library of Alexandria

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• In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Men, Firsts

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• First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

  Kathy Najimy

  Strong, Opportunity, Rights

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Inspirational, Equality, Availability

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspiring, Children, Home

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Time, Helping Others, Volunteer

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• Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

  Joan Rivers

  Business, Partners, Forty

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• All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

  Andy Rooney

  Men, Law, Literature

  Andy Rooney (2009). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.262, Hachette UK

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