Top 1200 Marriage Equality Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A marriage bound together by commitments to exploit the other for filling one's own needs (and I fear that most marriages are built on such a basis) can legitimately be described as a "tic on a dog" relationship. Just as a hungry tic clamps on to a nourishing host in anticipation of a meal, so each partner unites with the other in the expectation of finding what his or her personal nature demands. The rather frustrating dilemma, of course, is that in such a marriage there are two tics and no dog!

Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

I want my daughters to live in a world where there is equality and parity of pay.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

Equality today means ‘sameness’, rather than ‘oneness’.

Equality should be a thing we don't even have to talk about anymore.

Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Marriage is work. Get it out of your thick skull that marriage is, 'Oh, we got married and now we just live forever wonderfully.' It's work. It's just like starting a business: You're going to bicker with your business partner, but you don't leave the business partner. You work it out.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding.

When we talk about pay equality, I think we're misunderstanding where the problem lies.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country's equality index.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

[Fighting for equality for women] that's what my mission has been for the last years.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

Gender equality is more successful than armed force.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

To me, feminism is believing in women's equality, and I ardently ascribe to that belief.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.

I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty.

In marriage you got to go through the same struggles as a relationship, that's if the relationship is real, because there's a lot of non-real relationships going on in the world right now. And I think that's just because of the day and age we're in, a lot of these relationships are taking place over text messages, it's not real substance. But when you got a real one, it's already like a marriage.

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned 'change of heart.' This dude's made huge, measurable strides for gay rights, and if being coy about his plans for gay marriage for a few years was needed to get him elected, then so be it. LGBT persons will be better off, and federal same-sex marriage recognition will come sooner because of it.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.

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

I am still fully committed to male-female equality.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it.

I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life.

Life question reflects nation's nature & equality of humans.

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

In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

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

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.