Top 1200 Political Equality Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

For historic reasons - principally the political Right's opposition to gay rights - most gay spokespeople continue to think that the political Right is the sole locale from which anti-gay sentiment can come.

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

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

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

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

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

In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.

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

What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice's decision to retire, far more important than the party of the President or which political party has control of the Senate.

Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.

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

There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there were only two things you could do: conceptual analysis or empirical investigation. Any kind of political theory or even ethical theory was nonsense.

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

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

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.

The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

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

While the political right may moralize sex, the political left is doing it with food. Food is becoming extremely moralized nowadays, and a lot of it is ideas about purity, about what you're willing to touch, or put into your body.

Tennis has always been at the forefront of equality between men and women's prize money.

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

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

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

Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral?

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

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.

Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party.

We do not have many women leaders in the world. But if you look at the current examples, most of those few female leaders that we have today lead their countries under the pressure of difficult political and economic circumstances. They all posses strong personalities and have real political influence on the domestic and international scene.

For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance at political life for real. When the people of Etobicoke-Lakeshore elected me their MP, it changed me forever.

The people in my family couldn't adjust to the political atmosphere around me. I didn't want my political ambitions to cause stress or trauma for my family. I didn't want any name, fame, or money at the cost of my family.

You can help me by advancing equality, supporting arts and education, and saving this goddamn planet.

Your political views should be your political views. I believe in business being non-partisan.

I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.

Ma Ying-jeou tends to use cross-strait policy as an election tool and a political tool, too, and my position is that we don't use that as a political tool because that is an issue that is critical and essential to the interests of the Taiwanese people.

To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

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

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

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

But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child. Indeed, if we were to start judging parents on the basis of their political beliefs, we would change the concept of family for the rest of time.

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate, can change the political and social life of the country..it is up to political organization..and not to romantic literature.. to change the present situation.

The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic power held by citizens, and the broad diffusion of privately owned economic power.

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

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

Trump is an innovator who has shown how out of step the political establishment was. Which I think, probably, in the long term will be healthy. We have to figure out how to reinvigorate our political institutions and he's demonstrating to us the urgency of that task.

Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

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

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

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

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

I think The New Yorker's cartoons aren't very political because the people who do the cartoons aren't awfully political people, and they aren't paid to be political. I think editorial cartoonists are. That's what they do. They probably have a great natural interest in politics, and then they are paid to do it, so they sort of have to hunt out these ideas. I admire editorial cartoons, but I'm also sort of happy that I don't do them because I'd hate to have to label things and I'd especially hate, more than anything, to label something Dennis Hastert or Mark Foley.