The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle

The sole equality on Earth is death
Bailey, Philip James

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Balzac, Honore de

What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors
Becque, Henry Francois

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently
Blackmun, Justice Harry Andrew

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
Chennault, Anna Chan

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid. There is no big man who has not felt small. Some men never feel small; but these are the few who are.
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free
Darrow, Clarence Seward

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free
Debs, Eugene Victor

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality.
Durant, William James

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Dylan, Bob

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
Ferraro, Geraldine Anne

The majestic egalitarianism of the law, which forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
France, Anatole

The English-speaking countries, especially the United States and Britain, have a deeply cynical policy of double standards regarding the Islamic world of 1.3 billion people. In spite of Osama Bin Laden’s violence, his primitive politics and his misogyny he is the most popular figure in this Islamic world, where he has little competition from the corpulent kings, generals, dictators and juntas, who obey orders from the west ... I was with Arabs in Iraq, Jordan and Palestine while they listened to Osama Bin Laden’s first video and saw the reaction: Their faces were wet with tears. He pierced their hearts with his message, which had three arrows: First: That America will never have peace until Palestine has peace and justice. Second: That America will never have peace as long as 6,000 Iraqi children die each month due to U.S. enforced UN sanctions. Third: America will never have peace as long as the west maintains tyrants and puppet rulers in the Islamic world. The Islamic world sees 6,000 Iraqi children die every month for ten years and sees that the west doesn’t care, but when 3,000 people die in the World Trade Centers the whole world shakes and is now on the brink of many wars...this is part of a pervasive double-standard by which the blood of Americans is worth so much more than the blood of Iraqis or Afghanis.
Galloway, George

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers
Gandhi, Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistible force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.
Heine, Christian Johann Heinrich

In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.
Hensel, Robert M

Pale death approaches with an equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of the cottage, and the portals of the palace.
Horace

With equal pace, impartial fate, Knocks at the palace and the cottage gate.
Horace

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave
Ingalls, John James

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.
Jackson, Jesse Louis