Equality Quotes

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

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

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.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

The love of democracy is that of equality.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its sovereign law is subordination and dependence.

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.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.