More quotations tagged with “equality”
In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
—Charles de Montesquieu
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
—Aristotle
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
—Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
All men are equal before fish.
—Herbert Hoover
Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
—Joan Rivers