Top 1200 Marriage Equality Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.

Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

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

She is fragile, she is soft, she is weaker, she is afraid. All around is a man-created world, and she is a stranger in it. She needs security. So when she falls in love, the first concept, the first idea, is how to be secure, safe. She would not like to make love to a man unless marriage is settled. Marriage has to be the first thing, then anything else can follow.

I hope that we always have diversity, that we have equality and representation every step of the way.

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

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

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

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

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

It's impossible to play football in a world among men and not fight for equality.

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

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

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

Marriage isn't a contest to see who is most often right. Marriage requires being what the Japanese call 'the wise bamboo,' which means you bend so you don't break. Treat your spouse with the flexibility and respect you would give to a top client. Think how we treat clients; We smile, we are polite, we listen to their ideas. Never forget that your spouse is your most important client.

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

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

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

The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

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

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

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

Ending discrimination and extending equality should always be a national priority.

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

In reality it's pretty obvious that all the citizens of Israel have total civil equality.

Playing football can be damn harsh, but every day is a fight for equality.

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

I've always believed that the great strength of the Internet is that it allows us to communicate with each other, it allows debate. And I think that gay marriage is a huge step forward. But debate is throwing ideas about, and when it becomes sort of a weapon of character assassination, I think that's crazy. I think the situation in America is different from in England, where we have civil partnership, and now the vote on gay marriage has been carried, and whether it will go through Parliament I don't know.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

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

I think that the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight - it's not a 'gay wedding,' it's just a 'wedding'... It's not a 'gay marriage,' it's just 'a marriage.' It's not a 'black man' or 'white woman,' it's just 'a man' and 'a woman,' or 'a human' and 'a human.' I'd just like to get to that.

By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

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

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

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

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

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

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

Bumble is about equality. We are reverse-engineering traditional societal norms.

Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

At this point, we are living one of the greatest experiments in humankind - to create something that has, throughout history, been considered a contradiction in terms - a passionate marriage. Passion has always existed, but it took place somewhere else. Everything that we wanted from a traditional marriage - companionship, family, children, economic support, a best friend, a passionate lover, a trusted confidante, an intellectual equal - we are asking from one person what an entire village once provided. And couples are crumbling under the weight of so much expectation.

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

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.

All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.

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

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

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

Marriage is more permanent than love. Love may be eternal, but it is not permanent. It may continue forever and forever, but there is no inner necessity for it to continue. It is like a flower: bloomed in the morning, by the evening gone. It is not like the rock. Marriage is more permanent; you can rely on it. In old age it will be helpful.

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

It has been a long march to equality. We have cracked the door, and opened the window.

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

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

Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love.

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