(905 quotes found)
“It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”
Albert Einstein
“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain, and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use”
Abraham Lincoln
“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
“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none”
Thomas Jefferson
“Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.”
“I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there”
Maureen Reagan
“We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
William Faulkner
“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
“Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.”
