Equal Quotes
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Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Claudius Claudianus
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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That my business success is equal to my personal life.
Merv Griffin
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The stronger an agent’s motivation to A is, in comparison to the agent’s motivation for alternative courses of action, the more likely the agent is to A, other things being equal.
Alfred Mele
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I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is a beggar, or God in person, and whether he is ignorant or wise, they are all of equal right. No one has more right than any other, and nobody is more than any other.
Billy Meier
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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.
Sherman Alexie
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
Joseph Priestley
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All men & women are created equal.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
Stephen Ambrose
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...she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything.
Andreï Makine
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Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
John Brunner
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I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
Seneca the Younger
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I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.
Erica Brown
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.
Thomas Sowell
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There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause
Cass Sunstein
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When I first started making films 30 years ago, people would comment that I was a woman. But strangely, when I was in television, no one ever mentioned that I was a woman. Maybe it was because television and film were different. There were more women working in television than men. There was no split in terms of work - everyone was considered equal.
Ann Hui
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Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.
Rene Char
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
Carson McCullers
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We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.
Miranda Richardson
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.
William S. Burroughs
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There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.
Evangeline Booth
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I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever.
Stephen Douglas
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Muslims who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in our free societies.
Geert Wilders
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Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
Stephen Covey