Top 1200 Liberty And Equality Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

Any government I lead will continue with the equality of gay and lesbian people.

We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

There is a tremendous rise now in feminine awareness and wishing for equality, equal opportunities.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there

Sweden is a good country to raise a family in because there is an equality there I don't feel in the States.

There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

We need an inspiring vision of equality that resonates in the hearts, minds, and souls of all Americans.

Sometimes that irrational commitment to principle is what society needs to survive. Whenever you talk about radicalism, whenever you talk about activism, whenever you talk about progressive activity, that sort of moves the measure of liberty in human society forward, makes us all enjoy a better standard of liberty, it typically starts out criminal. It typically starts out a little bit shaky, and rather radical. And that's irrational to put yourself up to do that.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

Words don't change children's lives. Real action by the government and equality would.

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes. Every American has the constitutional right not to be taxed or have his tax money expended for the establishment of religion. For too long the issue of government aid to church related organizations has been a divisive force in our society and in the Congress. It has erected communication barriers among our religions and fostered intolerance.

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

I believe an authentic Judaism would legislate total equality for queer people.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.

The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.

Our locker room is so positive. We are all focused on the same objectives, and that's equality for women.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.

The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.

I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's... But how does the great apostle spend his time in prison?... We read of no dispatches sent to court to procure his liberty; but many to the churches, to help them to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had made them free... The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love for the soil. Premature ‘liberty’ of this kind would have been a disaster: we should have been torn to pieces by petty squabbles before we had ever reached political maturity, which, as things were, as made possible by the long quiet years under monarchical government; for it was that government which, as it were, nursed our strength and enabled us ultimately to produce sound fruit from liberty, as only a politically adult nation can.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of our early freedom? We say this, that the sin our fathers sinned was that they did not trust liberty wholly. They thought it possible to compromise between liberty and government, believing the latter to be 'a necessary evil,' and the moment the compromise was made, the whole misbegotten monster of our present tyranny began to grow. Instruments which are set up to safeguard rights become the very whip with which the free are struck.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

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

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

The revolution of equality between men and women has began, there is no going back

The moral case for gender equality is obvious. It should not need any explanation.

Equality for all is what we should all want, between race, religion, gender, sexuality... it doesn't matter.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

The way the Democrats go about seeking equality is to lower people at the top.