Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard
No joy can equal the joy of serving others.
Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.
First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation.
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.
I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.
We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate. . . equal opportunity for all.
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!
To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.
You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.
Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.
If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.
He was the up and equal homosexual who would not sit at the back of the bus.
Equal Justice Under The Law. That is a great goal. But that goal has not been realized.
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family. - Don Corleone
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
One question we must consider today is how we can take action to unify our nation, heal racial division, end poverty and give real-life meaning to the constitutional mandate that there be equal protection under law.