Equals Quotes - page 2

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
These are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night. View quote
William Carlos Williams
Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals. View quote
Helen Clark
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. View quote
Harper Lee
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i. e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women. View quote
Alan Sillitoe
Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt. View quote
Václav Havel
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals. View quote
Francis Bacon
The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others. View quote
African Spir
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best. View quote
Thucydides
If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals. (Thucydides)
Communication can only take place among equals. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah (the Untouchables) or Panchama is sheer nonsense. It is roguish to say so. It is a big hoax played on us. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
The most superficial fact regarding the Discourses, the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's History, compelled us to start a chain of tentative reasoning which brings us suddenly face to face with the only New Testament quotation that ever appears in Machiavelli's two books and with an enormous blasphemy. View quote
Leo Strauss
The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing. View quote
Adam Smith
Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
Luck equals (1) diversification plus (2) persistence. View quote
James Altucher
Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity. View quote
Johan Galtung
Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. View quote
Idries Shah
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question. (Billie Jean King)
Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. View quote
Arnold Newman
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals. View quote
Alveda King
The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical. View quote
Antoinette Brown Blackwell