Equity Quotes

• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ethical Principles, Justice, Judging

  "Medical Ethics and Humanities". Book by Frederick Adolf Paola, Robert Walker, Lois LaCivita Nixon, March 9, 2010.

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• There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Equality, Law

  Speech, 28 May 1794, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 4, p. 377

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• If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, Respect, Parent

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• There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.

  Joia Mukherjee

  Justice, Movement, Social

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• He who seeks equity must do equity.

  Joseph Story

  Joseph Story (1861). “Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in England and America”, p.10

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• Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Inspirational, Education, Strong

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• Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world.

  Amartya Sen

  Impact, Priorities, Development

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• ...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed

  Jonathon Porritt

  Responsibility, Justice, Empathy

  Jonathon Porritt (2012). “Capitalism as If the World Matters”, p.347, Routledge

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• Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  God, Men, Law

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• Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

  Jim Rogers

  Active Management, Commodity, Private Equity

  "Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market". Book by Jim Rogers, March 27, 2007.

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• Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Blessed, Men, Justice

  "Epistle to the Son of the Wolf". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, 1891.

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• The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

  Alvaro Uribe

  Dream, Hatred, Exclusion

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• Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Good Life, Fighting, Men

  "The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1967.

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• The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

  James Wolfensohn

  Issues, Needs, Poverty

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• Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

  Marcus Garvey

  Believe, Justice, Age

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.27, Ravenio Books

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  We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

  Fidel Castro

  Order, Justice, World

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• Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience.

  John Selden

  Law, Feet, Long

  "Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden (Equity)". Book by John Selden and Richard Milward, 1689.

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• Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

  Helen Clark

  Gdp, Fundamentals, Dignity

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• Education makes human beings more articulate. It transforms people. You can think differently about the world. It makes it possible for you to get jobs. It makes a dramatic difference. It generates a social equity that we need.

  Amartya Sen

  Jobs, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.

  Darren Hardy

  Choices, Ignorant, Naked

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

  John Locke

  Law, Common, Reason

  John Locke, John W. Yolton (1977). “The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary”, p.279, CUP Archive

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• Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Excited, Wells

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• We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Ideas, Understanding, Rakes

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• The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

  Herbert Read

  Principles, Jurisprudence, Analogies

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

  Jacques Delors

  Thinking, Creating, Issues

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