Equal Quotes
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The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.
Emily Yoffe
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They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
Confucius
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Equal opportunity does not come from tolerance; it comes from acceptance.
Cruz Bustamante
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The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.
William Jennings Bryan
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For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.
Tim Yeo
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The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
Simon Sinek
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But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
William H. Seward
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A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.
Celine Buckens
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Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.
Nick Rahall
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The same Power that brought the slave out of bondage will, in His own good time and way, bring about the emancipation of women, and make her the equal in power and dominion that she was in the beginning.
Amelia Bloomer
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Riding trails with your dog restores a bond lost in some evolutionary belch. You travel at the same speed, over the same terrain, neither of you slowing to compensate for the other. You're equal playmates with mud in your teeth.
Allison Glock
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We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.
Niki Ashton
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For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.
Soren Kierkegaard
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At sunset when you pray to God, say over and over that each man is a brother and that all men are equal.
Ahmed Sekou Toure
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Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.
Jane Austen
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Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.
Arthur Schnitzler
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Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up, we can't ask for equal pay, you have to be paid on performance and the results you deliver.
Katie Hopkins
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If God and Christ were equal then Christ should be called God’s brother, not God’s Son.
Arius
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Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
Stanley Kubrick
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Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.
Josephine Baker
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What I know is that my upbringing was always the man was the head of the family. It's a European tradition. We always look up to the man. But this is old times. Now what I believe is that I'm definitely equal.
Ivana Trump
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Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.
Murray Rothbard
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When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.
Sarah Vowell