Top 100 Equal Quotes
#1. The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I think our collective freedom requires that.
Richard Benjamin
#3. Healthy mature adults use both Sensing and Intuition but not with equal competence, confidence and conscious control.
Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.
#4. Pierre Trudeau dreamed of a society that afforded all of its citizens an equal opportunity to succeed in life
whatever their background or beliefs, whether rich or poor,
Jean Chretien
#5. I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
Sojourner Truth
#6. Both Jefferson and Madison remained convinced to the end of their lives that all parts of America's government had equal authority to interpret the fundamental law of the Constitution - all departments had what Madison called a concurrent right to expound the constitution.
Gordon S. Wood
#7. The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.
Jeremy Bentham
#8. It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.
Anthony Collins
#9. The Perfect Weapon
It's what men both long for and yet....secretly pray we never find.
A woman with equal parts passion and reason.
Michael Xavier
#10. The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
Frank Pittman
#11. When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless,
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen,
I might not be the same, but that's not important.
No freedom 'til we're equal, damn right I support it.
Macklemore
#12. Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
James Baldwin
#13. Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart. - from The Iron
Henry Rollins
#14. Equality ... is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Hannah Arendt
#15. My bride is here ... because my equal is here and my likeness ... come to me- come to me entilrely now ... make my happiness- I will make yours
Charlotte Bronte
#16. Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers.
Olivia Newton-John
#17. Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Zedong
#18. They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.
Leonard Peltier
#19. We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. One of the tricks of life is to have sense and money in roughly equal proportions.
Craig Brown
#21. Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
Jackson Browne
#22. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.
Sun Tzu
#23. If I'm going to be a student here, treated on equal terms, then I have to be willing to do everything that they do," I said. "There can't be two sets of expectations, one for them and one for me, the only girl in the class. How will I earn their esteem if I don't pose?
Sharon Biggs Waller
#24. One has to go into relationships with equal expectations, ready to give as much as the other - not with one person wanting a fling and the other real love ...
Alain De Botton
#25. Affirmative action and equal opportunity was never and is not intended to let people with fewer skills and less experience triumph over those with more. It was intended to aid a decision between two people who have the same set of skills.
Tarah Wheeler
#26. The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.
A. C. Bradley
#27. It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#28. Through study and learning they earn the pleasure of princes-
What comes of such learning?
Butter never rises from boiling sour milk.
Speak bird! What do you yearn by pecking newly sprouted grain?
Nursing one broken heart, Bahu, is equal to the worship of many years.
Sultan Bahu
#29. Intelligence and stupidity have equal chance of taking a man to divinity! The blind nature has no such distinctions.
Thiruman Archunan
#31. When I was younger, I loved math. Everything about math. But in school, math now has letters. Like what does x equal? There are also long stories with characters, and although the story is supposed to end with some number, all the words block my path to getting there.
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
#32. We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.
Blanche Lincoln
#33. The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.
Thomas Carlyle
#34. Like all the other officers at Group Headquarters except Major Danby, Colonel Cathcart was infused with the democratic spirit: he believed that all men were created equal, and he therefore spurned all men outside Group Headquarters with equal fervor.
Joseph Heller
#35. That everyone is of equal significance and that the differences between individuals are more important than the differences between broad classes?
Jo Walton
#36. In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
G.K. Chesterton
#37. Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so richand varied in its productions, and at the same time so habitable by the European, as this is?
Henry David Thoreau
#38. For every action there's a reaction. And also, for every action there's an equal and opposite criticism.
Jason Mraz
#39. All discomfort is not equal. Learning to listen will help you distinguish among effort, fatigue and pain. To what degree, under what conditions and over what period of time your body experiences these sensations will determine how you respond.
Gina Greenlee
#40. I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.
Ellen DeGeneres
#41. Art isn't a hawk making lazy circles in the sky. Beauty doesn't equal art, and it can't just be the world in a package. It's got to take the world and mess it up some. Add the artifice as a lens, right?
Samantha Hunt
#42. If the satisfaction to be derived from each successive increase in wealth is smaller than the satisfaction derived from the previous increase in wealth, then the disutility caused by a loss will always exceed the positive utility provided by a gain of equal size.
Peter L. Bernstein
#43. Occam's Razor. My father had often repeated that one to me. Occam's Razor states the following: "Other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one." Put more succinctly, the simplest answer was usually the best one. So
Harlan Coben
#44. To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!
Patricia Arquette
#45. All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.
Viken Berberian
#46. The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.
William H. Seward
#47. As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.
Pierre Omidyar
#48. Well, for cool native impudence and pure innate pride, you haven't your equal
Charlotte Bronte
#49. The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking ...
John Irving
#50. The promises of God are equal to current coin. Therefore, I must act on the promises as I would if I actually had the cash.
Rees Howells
#51. We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.
Matthew Stewart
#52. There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.
Charles Dudley Warner
#53. It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.
Narendra Modi
#54. Make your life a tribute equal to the magnitude of the gift of life.
Bryant McGill
#55. [In a blogosphere] everybody has an opinion now, but I don't really freaking care about - all opinions ain't created equal, because everybody can go out there and express themselves and hide behind some character we don't know who you really are, a bunch of cowards.
Tavis Smiley
#57. NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.
Xavier Becerra
#58. My past lives will never equal to the love I found in this one
Cameron Davis
#59. To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
Callie Khouri
#60. In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law which will eventually break them to an equal extent. It may not be balanced in the form of dollars and cents but in the loss of good-will upon which their future business depends.
Walter Russell
#61. Man is divided into two categories; men and supermen. Men are taught that all men are equal. Supermen think that they are the only men.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#62. People tend to believe that good fortune consists of equal parts talent, hard work, and sheer luck. It's hard to deny the roles of the latter two. As to talent, I would only say it consists primarily in finding the right moment to step in.
Jack McDevitt
#63. Megadeath: a unit of measure equal to one million human casualites
David Bukszpan
#64. I don't like men who treat women like arm candies. He should treat me like an equal or better. And then he should be a good human being. He should see the human side of things. I like men who stand up for what's right and who don't cheat.
Sonam Kapoor
#65. Some people like me, some don't. I don't understand, Where the difference comes from. My heart like them all. For a simple childish reason. We all are created equal, we all are humans.
Santosh Kalwar
#66. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal one dead white person.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#67. A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal.
Dora Musielak
#68. Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.
Rick Riordan
#69. Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya Angelou
#71. I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.
John F. Kennedy
#72. Our parents met at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona at a high school summer science camp. "I'd come to see the heavens," our father always said. "But the stars were in her eyes," a line that used to please and embarrass me in equal measure. Young geeks in love.
Karen Joy Fowler
#73. Love is all you need" - The Beatles -
"And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make"
- The Beatles -
The Beatles
#74. Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.
Kathryn Kuhlman
#75. Men are born equal but they are also born different.
Erich Fromm
#76. People have the absolute right to preach and to think and to say whatever they believe, and at the same time those beliefs can't be used as the basis for denying other people their equal rights and their equal freedom.
Chris Christie
#77. come, ancient and unchanging night
Night, born as dethroned king,
Night, internally equal to silence, Night.
With sequins of volatile starlight
Woven on your robe with infinity
Come quietly
Come fleet-footed
Come alone.
Pierre Peju
#78. Are the returns on my journey equal to the length of the road behind me? And if not, have I realized the pressing need to surrender to God the road in front of me?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#80. What makes a date so dreadful is the weight of expectation attached to it. There is every chance that you may meet your soulmate, get married, have children and be buried side by side. There is an equal chance that the person you meet will look as if they've already been buried for some time.
Guy Browning
#81. One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
#82. The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#83. It's like there's this knowledge hanging in the air that one person has more power than the other, and we're supposed to pretend everything is nice and normal and equal, but in reality, luck or chance has showered benefits on one person that the other person couldn't dream of.
Sara Benincasa
#84. I know very well that we are not all equal, nor can be so; but it is my opinion that he who avoids the common people, in order not to lose their respect, is as much to blame as a coward who hides himself from his enemy because he fears defeat. The
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#85. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. Art must be nourished by faith, the faith of an equal.
May Sarton
#88. There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#89. The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#90. Assumptions equal a loss of pride and the sting of defeat.
Donna Lynn Hope
#91. Some are baffled, but that one is not
that one knows me.
Ah lover and perfect equal,
I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections.
Walt Whitman
#92. In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.
Emily Thorne
#93. Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.
Ben Kingsley
#94. In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.
Orhan Pamuk
#95. The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam. The myth was invented by Jews in nineteenth-century Europe as a reproach to Christians.
Bernard Lewis
#96. While pity shows a lack of respect for other human beings, compassion has its roots in a deep respect for others. Pity is an emotion; compassion is a connection. Compassion sees the other as equal. Compassion happens when we care for another person enough to make his or her problems our own.
Matt Litton
#97. When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law - two evils of equal magnitude, between which it would be difficult to choose. It
Frederic Bastiat
#98. The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
Malcolm Gladwell
#99. We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it.
Seamus Heaney
#100. Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.
Dr. Seuss
