Equal Quotes

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights.

I think anybody has, regardless of your gender, we all have equal value if you have value to bring and value to provide, you just have to be willing to use your voice.

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

We were a land of opportunity. You can never have equal outcomes, but you can have equal opportunity.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.

Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.

Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.

A jerk on a motorcycle is equal to a leaf, because I find it beautiful when these things fall.

Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.

We all salute, with pride, the same American Flag. And we are equal - totally equal - in the eyes of Almighty God.

I don't understand the difficulty, people; Love your brother, treat him as an equal.

Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.

In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat.

The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.

We're all equal before a wave.

Be equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself.

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.

The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.

All films are born free and equal.

Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. “Kiss me,” she said. “Please.

The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.