I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.
Products were once designed for the functions they performed. But when all companies can make products that perform their functions equally well, the distinctive advantage goes to those who provide pleasure and enjoyment while maintaining the power. If functions are equated with cognition, pleasure is equated with emotion; today we want products that appeal to both cognition and emotion.
Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.
In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.
We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.
It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love.
A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.
Talking about sexual morality, I wouldn't agree that it's declining, but it's certainly changing. Young and old, we are very much in the process of taking a fresh look at the whole issue of morality. The only decline that's taking place - and it's about time - is in the old puritanical concept that sex is equated with sin.
For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or they have only for very brief instants.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
I think for the most part men have always been the aggressors sexually. Through time immemorial they've always been in control. So I think sex is equated with power in a way, and that's scary in a way. It's scary for men that women would have that power, and I think it's scary for women to have that power - or to have that power and be sexy at the same time.
Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.
Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.
