1,457 Quotes About Equality

  • Author Ignazio Silone
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    An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

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  • Author L. Neil Smith
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    Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

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  • Author Olive Schreiner
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    We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

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  • Author Rex Stout
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    God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

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  • Author Sara Sheridan
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    We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

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  • Author Stendhal
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    Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

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  • Author Zadie Smith
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    My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

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