Equality Quotes - Page 8

• Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Democracy

  "The Spirit of Laws".

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• Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.

  Isocrates

  Freedom, Rights, Political

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  Desmond Tutu

  Memorial Day, Peace, Freedom

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• Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

  Robert Owen

  Women, Rights, Liberty

  "The Book of the New Moral World, Vol. 6". Book by Robert Owen, 1836-1844.

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• Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

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• Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

  Benjamin Rush

  Religious, Time, Art

  Misattributed to Benjamin Rush in "Total Health and Restoration: A 180-Day Journey" by Terry Dorian, p. 49, 2002.

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• If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises elimination or eradication of heterogeneity.

  Carl Schmitt

  Political, Democracy, Principles

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• In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby

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• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Photography, Believe, Interesting

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• If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds

  Bill Moyers

  Thinking, Media Control, Issues

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• His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

  James M. Barrie

  May, Upstairs, Servant

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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• In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

  John James Ingalls

  Death, Men, Democracy

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Work, People

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

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• As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Family, Inspiring, Women

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• If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Daughter, Class, Boss

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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• Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Inspiring, Kindness, Honesty

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• The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

  Robert Reich

  Philosophy, Opportunity, Differences

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". A BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Women, Males, Demigods

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.

  Judith Martin

  Country, Freedom, People

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• All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

  David Allan Coe

  Men, Equal, Equality Of People

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• I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Beautiful, Country, Falling In Love

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1973). “The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).”

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• In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Hands, White, Black

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• The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

  Gerry Adams

  Issues, Agendas, Unions

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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