Equality Quotes - Page 17

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and more able have no means to profit from their superiority other than to serve to the best of their abilities the wishes of the majority of the less gifted.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

Inequality promotes progress.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible: they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery.