Quotes about equal
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“Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.”

Colson Whitehead book The Underground Railroad

Source: The Underground Railroad

Men

“If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.”

Marjorie Garber (1944) American academic

Sadness, Dogs, Joy

“Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

Change

“He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

Love, Hate

“To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.”

Abbie Hoffman book Steal This Book

Introduction, p. iv.
Source: Steal This Book (1971)

Sister, Evil

“I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“Luck equals (1) diversification plus (2) persistence.”

James Altucher (1968) American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, and author

The Power of No: Because One Little Word Can Bring Health, Abundance, and Happiness

“All men are equal - all men, that is, who possess umbrellas.”

E.M. Forster book Howards End

Source: Howards End

Men

“A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Gaudy Night

Source: Gaudy Night

Marriage, Intelligence

“Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' Talk is clouds, Table Talk is smoke."

Les Miserables”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Lovers

“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Color, Understanding

“Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah…" Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word.

"Equals?" Miles hazarded.

"Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Vor Game

Source: The Vor Game

“Judge us not equally, Abraham. We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others”

Seth Grahame-Smith (1976) US fiction author

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Hell

“We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Mountain, Happiness

“Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Time, Fight

“God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing

God

“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”

John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Source: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

World, Victory

“For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.”

Gary Zukav (1942) American writer and revivalist

Source: The Seat of the Soul

World

“As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.”

Harper Lee (1926–2016) American author

Truth, Thinking

“Equality before the law is probably forever inattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

Men, World, Law

“Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

Love, Pain, Time

“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

People, Way, Help

“For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.”

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.
I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,
I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

Lovers, Thinking

“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“What we need is equality without conformity.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Green Mars

Source: Green Mars (1993)

“Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”

Sophie Kinsella book Can You Keep a Secret?

Source: Can You Keep a Secret?

Personality

“What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave so make it short. -- Mitch Hertzog's voice mail message.”

Meg Cabot book Boy Meets Girl

Source: Boy Meets Girl

“A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.”

Kiran Desai book The Inheritance of Loss

Source: The Inheritance of Loss

Life, Beauty, Animals

“I think he loved us equally, but differently.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Love, Thinking

“Heritage does not equal destiny.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: The Calling

“The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”

Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

Men, Happiness

“There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal…”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

Source: Persuasion

Nature

“Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.”

Malorie Blackman book Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

People

“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.”

Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator

Source: Why Marx Was Right

“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

As quoted in Visions : How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century (1999) by Michio Kaku, p. 295
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications

Sad, Deep, Depressing, Universe

“If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.”

Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928) Peruvian theologian

Source: A Theology of Liberation

Love, Life, Friendship

“My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums…”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

"Messenger"
Variant: My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness
Source: Thirst (2006)

World

“Flutter like a hummingbird,
Dive like an eagle,
Ain't no bird that's my equal.
- Twilight”

Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer

Source: The Capture

Bird

“Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.”

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)

Science

“So I want to ask you a hypothetical question.

My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

Question

“There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

People

“There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.”

Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage

Source: Murder at the Vicarage

Age, Time

“Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

Hate, Perfection

“The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”

Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

Love, Life, Flowers, Freedom

“I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.”

Michael J. Fox (1961) Canadian-American actor

Thinking, Parting

“Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Raven's Shadow

“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Life, Dreams

“nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

World

“Death did not play favorites—He loved all equally.
What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.
The god's voice—not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Dead Man Rising

Love, Death, God, Fight

“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

God

“Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.”

E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Personality

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America

People

“With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Women, Men, Age, Way

“We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book A Lick of Frost

Source: A Lick of Frost

Love, Change, Heart

“You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

Truth, Bird

“Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

"Juan Muraña", in Brodie's Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)

Money, Way, Time

“A woman is human.

She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.

Likewise, she is never less.

Equality is a given.

A woman is human.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Intelligence

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Life, Mathematics, Problem

“Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever it is one is scrutinizing.”

John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic

Appearance

“Where there had been only fearful emptiness or equally frightening grandiose fantasies, an unexpected wealth of vitality is now discovered. This is not a homecoming, since this home has never before existed. It is the creation of home.”

Alice Miller (1923–2010) Swiss psychologist

Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Fear, Home, Wealth

“You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book.
Well, your book is just wrong.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Books

“There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Time, Happiness

“My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Children, Daughters

“… when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

Truth, Lie

“This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.”

Jonathan Swift book Les Voyages de Gulliver

Source: Gulliver's Travels

“Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

Letter to Jacob De La Motta (August 1820), Manuscript Division, Papers of James Madison http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/loc/madison.html <br class="br">1820s <br class="br">Context: Equal laws protecting equal rights, are found as they ought to be presumed, the best guarantee of loyalty, and love of country; as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination which are necessary to social harmony and most favorable to the advancement of truth. <br class="br">Context: Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect. And it is particularly pleasing to observe in the good citizenship of such as have been most distrusted and oppressed elsewhere, a happy illustration of the safety and success of this experiment of a just and benignant policy. Equal laws protecting equal rights, are found as they ought to be presumed, the best guarantee of loyalty, and love of country; as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination which are necessary to social harmony and most favorable to the advancement of truth.

Love, Law, Loyalty, Country

“The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: What Are People For?

Life, Despair

“The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Home, Light, Water, Parting

“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.”

James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)

“Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Love

“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

Pain, People, Fear, Time

“You don’t like people who have money, do you? (Astrid)
I’m not prejudiced against anyone, princess. I hate everyone equally. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Money, Hate, People, Princess

“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

Women, Men, Books, Education

“Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not “if only.” Not “as long as.” I matter equally. Full stop.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Source: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal.
But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

World

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

People, History, Time, Success

“Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

Source: Eating Animals

Animals

“Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Gift

Personality

“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

People

“I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.”

Seth Grahame-Smith (1976) US fiction author

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Hope

“We all belong here equally… Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.”

Polly Horvath (1957) Author

Source: My One Hundred Adventures

Support

“A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.”

Craig Clevenger The Contortionist's Handbook

Source: The Contortionist's Handbook

Life, World, Personality

“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Life, Decision

“Women won't have total equality until men can get pregnant.”

Diana Palmer (1946) American romance novelist

Women, Men

“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Source: The Life and Wisdom of Confucius

Youth, Future

“I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.”

Paul Krugman book The Conscience of a Liberal

Source: The Conscience of a Liberal (2007), Ch. 13. The Conscience of a Liberal http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=5887. W. W. Norton & Company. 352 pages ISBN 978-0-393-06069-0, 1st edition (2007)

Law, Democracy, Support, Wealth

“You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.”

John Dufresne (1948) Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright

Source: Love Warps the Mind a Little

Sex, Future

“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”

Stephen King book The Gunslinger

Source: The Gunslinger

Men, Truth

“The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Democracy