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Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery. -- James Fenimore Cooper
Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed. -- Jodi Picoult
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it. -- Margaret Halsey
Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal. -- Oriana Fallaci
We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don't think anybody really wants to be equal. Everybody wants to be more equal. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
There can be no equality in the boardroom until there is in the bedroom. -- Sheryl Sandberg
The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins. -- Janis Joplin
Equality comes in realizing that we are all doing different jobs for a common purpose. That is the aim behind any community. The very name community means let's come together to recognize the unity. Come ... unity. -- Swami Satchidananda
Equality,' said Steerpike,' is the thing. It is the only true and central premise from which constructive ideas can radiate freely and be operated without prejudice. Absolute equality of status. Equality of wealth. Equality of power. -- Mervyn Peake
No two things are equal. No two people are equal. Nobody can guarantee equal outcomes unless everybody's poor. -- Rush Limbaugh
Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it. -- Anthony Daniels
There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty. -- Anthony Trollope
No one enjoys being equal. -- David Mamet
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. -- David Samuel, 3Rd Viscount Samuel
Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise. -- Drew Karpyshyn
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being. -- D.h. Lawrence
Nobody really believes in equality anyway. -- Warren Farrell
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions. -- Slobodan Milosevic
Equal in law is not equal in nature. -- Greg Bear
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity. -- Baruch Spinoza
Equality is a practice, it's not just about words, -- Mona Eltahawy
Equality has no place for genius. -- Allen Bloom
Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction. -- Frances Wright
Equality for everybody is great. That would be amazing. -- Rob Lowe
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology. -- Monica Crowley
Because equality is sameness - and the last thing the world needs is sameness. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
We are not all equal, nor can we be so. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In short, between men and women you want ... "
"Equality."
"Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures."
"I said equality. I didn't say identity. -- Victor Hugo
While all this goes on, the English remain staunch believers in equality. Equality is a notion the English have given to humanity. Equality means that you are just as good as the next man but the next man is not half as good as you are. -- George Mikes
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. -- Matt Bomer
Equality makes way for an increased number of free, considered choices, and an increased number of people with access to them. But choice itself isn't the same as equality ... -- Andi Zeisler
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. -- Marlo Thomas
You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities! -- Leymah Gbowee
However, men and women are not "equal" if "equal" means "exactly the same. -- Margaret Atwood
We may be born equal but we do not prepare equally ... -- Garrett Mccoy
All men & women are created equal -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I don't think we live in a particularly equal society. -- Sienna Miller
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal. -- Patti Smith
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law. -- Thomas Hobbes
At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered. -- Carol Gilligan
The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms. -- James Fitzjames Stephen
Justice means equality for equals, and inequality for unequals. -- C.s. Lewis
We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know. -- Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. -- Zadie Smith
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. -- Erich Fromm
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. -- Honore De Balzac
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa. -- Aristotle.
In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes. -- Abu Bakr
we all are equal; I'm not black and you aren't white -- Fany Renjana
Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it. -- Honore De Balzac
The eye of true equality often seems to have some degree of disrespect for the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty to the supposedly accomplished, privileged high and lofty, although in reality, it's simply irrespectiveness. -- Criss Jami
Not being treated as equal IS oppression -- Christina Engela
If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just. -- Louis Antoine De Saint-Just
I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal.
Except that it's not. -- A.s. King
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. -- George Orwell
Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing. -- Josh Homme
We can say all we want about equality, but we don't believe in it. We believe in superiority and inferiority. It's in our nature to rank ourselves into status groups. -- Lauren Mclaughlin
I just believe in equality for all. -- Ashley Wagner
Women are equal because they are not different any more. -- Erich Fromm
Equality in possessions must be the last result of the utmost refinements of civilization; it is one of the conditions of that system of society towards which, with whatever hope of ultimate success, it is our duty to tend. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. -- Felix Frankfurter
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. -- Jacques Barzun
Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination. -- George Bernard Shaw
The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. -- Henry Becque
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally. -- Aristotle.
Everyone has an equal right to inequality. -- John Ralston Saul
No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality. -- Nina Simone
Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression. -- Dick Feagler
The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness. -- Alexis De Tocqueville
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group. -- Steven Pinker
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should exist among the people of God. It is a principle originated in hell; it is the root of all evils. It is inequality in riches that is a great curse. -- Orson Pratt
True equality of the sexes comes when a psychological unity of the masculine and feminine forces of one's own mind has been made. -- Serena Jade
Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value. -- Mason Cooley
Why we are hanging around with inequality concept every day, it is like comparing water with the bread. -- M.f. Moonzajer
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things. -- Edmund Burke
Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is the summit, equality is the base. -- Victor Hugo
I believe education is the great equalizer. -- Dave Heineman
It is not the case that we are born equal and that the conditions of life make our lives unequal, it is the opposite, we are born unequal, and the conditions of life make our lives more equal. -- Karl Ove Knausgard
If people aren't equal, where would you fit in? -- Haruki Murakami
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days. -- Thomas Sowell
We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance. -- Anthony Liccione
Equality can only exist between equals.
Civilization implies division of labor, division of labor implies subordination and subordination implies injustice and inequality. -- Ragnar Redbeard
Equality does not mean justice. If the wall is equality then not everyone can look from the top of the wall -- Ahmed
Equality lies only in human moral dignity ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
For men are not equal: thus speaks justice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences. -- Murray Rothbard
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. -- Thomas Paine
When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good. -- Philip Gulley
there really is no such thing as equality, just different levels of inequality, and how hard are you willing to fight for it all? Fuck. Did -- Laurell K. Hamilton
And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other. -- Walt Whitman
The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how we should treat human beings. -- Peter Singer
Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place. -- Thurgood Marshall
You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace. -- Gil Fronsdal
The only true forms of equality are equality at the Last Judgment and equality before a just court of law; all other attempts at levelling must lead, at best, to social stagnation. -- Russel Kirk
When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income. -- George Bernard Shaw
If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity. -- Margaret Thatcher
