Equal Quotes

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

~ George Orwell

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

~ Isaac Newton

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

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

~ Lucy Stone

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

~ Robert Toombs

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

~ James M. Barrie

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

~ Jeane Kirkpatrick

I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct.

~ Hattie Morahan

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

~ Lionel Trilling

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

~ Michael Kinsley

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

~ David Allan Coe

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

~ Johanna Siguroardottir

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.

~ Damien Rice

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

~ Paul Harris

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men they are far superior and always have been.

~ William Golding

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

~ Carrie Chapman Catt

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

~ Karen Morley

Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power.

~ Whitney Wolfe

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

~ Phillips Brooks

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

~ Barack Obama

Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of being utterly terrified and exhilarated that this is your chance.

~ Rose Leslie

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

~ Laurence J. Peter

We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

~ Vladimir Putin

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

~ Lucy Stone

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

~ Ben Elton

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

~ Emily Brontë

Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

~ Gavin Newsom

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

~ George Macdonald

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

~ Joan Rivers

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

~ John Avlon

In politics, as in physics, every reaction is met with an equal and opposite reaction.

~ Thom Tillis

My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.

~ Meghan Markle

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

~ Ken Robinson

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

~ Aldous Huxley

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

~ Jeremy Corbyn