Equality Quotes

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. Honore de Balzac

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. Mahatma Gandhi

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

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity. Irving Kristol

Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: ‘Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I’. Alexis de Tocqueville

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one’s level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up. Friedrich Nietzsche

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. Aristotle.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Barry Goldwater

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers. Susan B. Anthony

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it. George Mason