1,457 Quotes About Equality

To preserve our absolute categories or ideals at the expense of human lives offends equally against the principles of science and of history; it is an attitude found in equal measure on the right and left wings in our days, and is not reconcilable with the principles accepted by those who respect the facts.

For kings indeed we have, who wear the marks and assume the titles of royalty, but as for the qualities of their minds, they have nothing by which they are to be distinguished from their subjects.

They should live all together on an equal footing; merit to be their only road to eminence, and the disgrace of evil, and credit of worthy acts, their one measure of difference between man and man.

Do not abandon ship:Some countries of the world are like people fighting on a large boat. In the middle of their battle over who should catch the biggest fish, they look up and realize that the fine boat is sinking, and everyone is going down. Their next fight will be for basic survival, and they will need to rely on one another, floating far from shore in the vast sea.

When you split a pie up evenly, everyone gets the worst piece.

Flourishing depends on unconscious skills that serve as a pre-requisite for conscious accomplishments.

They say that only some people are different but that`s not true; everyone is unique in his own way but some of us just don`t fit in what they think is,,ordinary,, that` s why they see us differently, because we see the world from different angles. We live in our own world, in a world in which discrimination doesn`t exist, a free world without barriers...a happy world.

Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.

I feel like we should stop calling feminists 'feminists' and just start calling people who aren't feminist 'sexist' – and then everyone else is just human.