Equality Quotes Quotes

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

Henry Becque

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

Henry Becque

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Aristotle

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

Ashley Montagu

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality.

Matthew Arnold

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

Ashley Montagu

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Aristotle

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

Simone Weil

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order

Friedrich August Hayek

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Kahlil Gibran

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Bob Dylan

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

Kofi Annan

In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

Charles de Montesquieu
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