Browsing Topic Best Equal Quotes

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

Your friend, your enemy, your neutral all are equal. Genuine compassion is unbiased.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Someone else’s success does not equal a failure for you.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

Every action has equal and opposite reaction. This is law of the universe and spares none. Wrong done and injustice inflicted is paid back in the same coin. No one has escaped justice of the universe. It is only a matter of time.

Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.

Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal… We do not belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.

I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

We grant no dukedoms to the few,We hold like rights and shall;Equal on Sunday in the pew,On Monday in the mall.For what avail the plough or sail,Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.

The specific weight of the soul is equal to the sum of what has been dared.

In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.

There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.

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

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 government to the utmost.