Top 237 Unequal Quotes & Sayings

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

The world is hugely unequal.

Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic - the strong attacking the weak.

The problem with this world is the unequal distribution of capitalism.

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

A wife should always be few feet behind her husband. If he is an MA you should be a BA.If he is 5'4'tall you shouldn't be more than 5'3'tall. If he is earning five hundred rupees you should never earn more than four hundred and ninety nine rupees.That's the only rule to follow if you want a happy marriage...No partnership can ever be equal.It will always be unequal, but take care it is unequal in favor of the husband. If the scales tilt in your favor, God help you, both of you.

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals.

Plato in his dialogue The Phaedo says that whereas sticks and stones are both equal and unequal, (so maybe what that means is that each stick is going to be equal to some other sticks and unequal to some other sticks, so equal to the stick on the left maybe but shorter than the stick on its right) the form of equal is going to be just equal, and it won't partake of inequality at all. And it will be the cause of equality in things that are equal, for example, equal sticks and stones.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

All men are created unequal.

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.

Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth.

To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism. Unequal exchange is an ancient practice. What was remarkable about capitalism as a historical system was the way in which this unequal exchange could be hidden; indeed, hidden so well that it is only after five hundred years of the operation of this mechanism that even the avowed opponents of the system have begun to unveil it systematically.

The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.

The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.

People use me as a figurehead, and to me that misses the point and is blatantly offensive to thin women - my sister, for one. Curves don't epitomise a woman. Saying, 'Skinny is ugly' should be no more acceptable than saying fat is. I find all this stuff a very controlling and effective way of making women obsess over their weight, instead of exploiting their more important attributes, such as intellect, strength and power. We could be getting angry about unequal pay and unequal opportunities, but we're too busy being told we're not thin enough or curvy enough. We're holding ourselves back.

We live in a very unequal society.

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society.

Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.

Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely, others that if they are unequal in any respect they should be unequal in all. The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

If the U.S. is the richest country in the world, why is it also the most unequal?

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.

Unequal pay exists across most job sectors of our economy, even in nursing.

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

Nothing is so unequal as equality.

Things like Ferguson and Eric Garner show us there's an unequal distribution of forward momentum in America.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains.