Equality Quotes - Page 21

A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

I think the rapidly growing tendency to regard animals as born for nothing except slavery to so-called humanity absolutely disgusting.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.

But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships.

It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

Thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

The sole equality on earth is death.