Equality Quotes

"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference."
-Voltaire

"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law."
-Aristotle

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
-Henry Ford

"That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent."
-Aldous Huxley

"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."
-Tom Peters

"Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal."
-Hannah Arendt

"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal."
-Friedrich August Hayek

"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."
-Robert M. Pirsig

"Deep down, beneath all our insecurities, beneath all our hopes for and beliefs in equality, each of us believes we're better than anyone else. Because it's our beliefs that are right, our doubts that are allowable ones, our fears which are legitimate."
-Audrey Beth Stein

"It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected."
-Gerald R. Ford

"We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities."
-Jacques Maritain

"The quality of life is more important than life itself."
-Alexis Carrel

"I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us."
-Sacha Guitry

"I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan."
-Mary Daly

"It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence."
-Marquis de Vauvenargues

"Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric."
-Philip Crosby

"The love of democracy is that of equality."
-Charles de Montesquieu

"The sole equality on earth is death."
-Philip James Bailey

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
-Alexis De Tocqueville

"You haven't achieved equality until you're a legitimate target for humor."
-Scott Adams

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. ."
-Milton Friedman

"Socialism values equality more than liberty."
-Dennis Prager

"It was because of the shah. There was no equality between classes. There was a gap between people, and our imam said the reason was the shah, and he asked us to demonstrate against him. And this is what we did."
-Jafar Shalde

"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."
-Arthur Ashe

"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."
-Ashley Montague

"It's critical that the GLBT community support pro-equality candidates."
-Maria Gonzales

"The cry of equality pulls everyone down."
-Iris Murdoch