c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.
— David Thewlis
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
— Gustave Flaubert
I think what we're going to hear is that we didn't meet the basic, minimum standards required for a facility such as the one we had in Benghazi. And the request for more security personnel went unheeded, unanswered, and consequently, you know, you have the death of four Americans.
— Jason Chaffetz
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
— Eric Holder
I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.
— Liza Minnelli
Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it.
— Simon McBurney
I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.
— Simon McBurney
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
— Hedy Lamarr
I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
— Hedy Lamarr
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
— Isabelle Adjani
I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.
— Cher
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
— Jean Cocteau
When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
— Yayoi Kusama
We die only once, and for such a long time.
— Moliere
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.
— Tony Judt
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
— Ramana Maharshi
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
— Abu Bakr
My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
— Dick Gregory
Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
— Alison Moyet
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women. 
— Germaine Greer
When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.
— John Hodgman
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
— Taylor Caldwell
When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.
— Amy Lee
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
— Wendell Berry
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
— Stanislav Grof
The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
— Dennis Miller
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
— Philip Johnson
When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.
— Jane Birkin
I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.
— T. D. Jakes
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
— Bertolt Brecht
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
— Maureen O'Hara
Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
— Meg Cabot
Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.
— Kurt Eichenwald
I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.
— Mercedes McCambridge
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
— Rose Kennedy
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
— Carter Burwell
Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses.
— Paul Stamets
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
— Epicurus
Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.
— Hassan Nasrallah
Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.
— Anthony Foxx
If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
— Scott Caan
I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
I hope to die in the saddle seat.
— Albert Ellis
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
— Wilson Mizner
But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.
— Donna Shalala
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
— Willa Cather
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
— Brendan Behan
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
— Paracelsus
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
— Marlene Dietrich
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer.
— Helen Oyeyemi
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.
— Kiesza
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I like death. I'm a big fan of it.
— Guy Ritchie
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
— Arlo Guthrie
Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.
— Roberto Benigni
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
— Stokely Carmichael
I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
— Joan Baez
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
— Miguel de Unamuno
With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
— James Bovard
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
— Matthew Simpson
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
— Adam Clarke
I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.
— Nina Arianda
I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because there's somebody out there who can see that all sickness isn't unto death. That it's something you can't change at that point in time, so you just got to go with it. Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed of looking at yourself.
— Sharon Jones
I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.
— Louise Erdrich
You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.
— Brandi Carlile
None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.
— Sam Levenson
The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert.
— Caitlin Doughty
Death is better than slavery.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
— Salvatore Quasimodo
We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?
— Tony Randall
Johnny Ringo to me was just the best antagonist that I've ever played, because I played him as a guy who has a death wish and had done everything that he wanted in life. As far as he was concerned, a gun fight was about as exciting as it was going to get.
— Michael Biehn
There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.
— Julius Streicher
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
— Al Goldstein
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
— Boris Pasternak
Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
— William Law
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Death is the beginning of something.
— Edith Piaf
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
— Myron Scholes
The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.
— Jef I. Richards
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
— Eamon de Valera
Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
— Georges Bernanos
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
— Dean Smith
Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!
— Doug Davidson
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
— David Sarnoff
A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
— Evan Hunter
I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.
— Glenn Hoddle
Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.
— Laurence Fox
I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
— V. E. Schwab
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
— Red Skelton
I don't believe in death.
— Bob Weir
Death by starvation is slow.
— Mary Hunter Austin
Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
— Solon
Death's in the good-bye.
— Anne Sexton
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
— Joseph Hall
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
— Bryan Procter
Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?
— Joel C. Rosenberg
She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.
— Margaret Sanger
I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
— Ward Churchill
From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.
— Rex Hunt
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
— Jacob K. Javits
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
— Siegfried Sassoon
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
— Marcus Valerius Martial
If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.
— Devdutt Pattanaik
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
— Thomas Lynch
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
— Matthew Green
You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
— Paddy Chayefsky
The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.
— Hugh Sidey
I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
— Pam Dawber
It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'
— Thomas Arnold
How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!
— Hortense Odlum
Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
— James Shirley
I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.
— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.
— Eliot Ness
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
— Isabelle Eberhardt
Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
— Ernst Moritz Arndt
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
— John Hines
He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
— Giovanni Falcone
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
— Alice Thomas Ellis
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
— Rosa Parks
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
— Ellen DeGeneres
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
— John F. Kennedy
I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
— Malala Yousafzai
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
— Chief Joseph
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
— J. K. Rowling
True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.
— Monica Crowley
Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
— Ban Ki-moon
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
— Malala Yousafzai
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.
— Alveda King
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
— Thomas Jefferson
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
— Malcolm X
We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
— George Mason
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.
— Sarah MacLean
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
— Kofi Annan
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
— Abraham Lincoln
I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.
— Toussaint Louverture
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
— Albert Einstein
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
— B. R. Ambedkar
Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
— Jackie Robinson
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
— John Quincy Adams
Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.
— Ban Ki-moon
Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
— Kailash Satyarthi
There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.
— Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
— George Orwell
Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
— Charlize Theron
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
— Will Rogers
In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women's rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.
— Karen DeCrow
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
— Adrian Cronauer
The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
— Moza bint Nasser
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
— Abraham Lincoln
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
— Barry Goldwater
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.
— Kim Campbell
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
— Charles B. Rangel
Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.
— John Tyler
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
— Rudyard Kipling
Corporate social responsibility is measured in terms of businesses improving conditions for their employees, shareholders, communities, and environment. But moral responsibility goes further, reflecting the need for corporations to address fundamental ethical issues such as inclusion, dignity, and equality.
— Klaus Schwab
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
— Alice Paul
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
— Ban Ki-moon
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
— Andrew Jackson
Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.
— Joss Whedon
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
— Mao Zedong
Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
— Michelle Bachelet
In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.
— Tsai Ing-wen
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
— Plato
For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.
— Katy Perry
The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.
— Isaac Newton
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
— Marc Morial
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
— B. R. Ambedkar
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
— Frances Wright
To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
— Herbert Read
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
— Woodrow Wilson
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
— Simone Weil
I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.
— Rosa Parks
This is a great country, but fortunately for you, it is not perfect. There is much to be done to bring about complete equality. Remove hunger. Bring reality closer to theory and democratic principles.
— Thurgood Marshall
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
— Anatole France
Young men in my day really stepped up... These were champions for freedom, equality, and justice for all human beings, and they were educated individuals that used their education and knowledge to represent their case.
— Jim Brown
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
— Bob Dylan
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.
— Harry A. Blackmun
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.
— Susan B. Anthony
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
The idea of equal rights was in the air.
— Lucy Stone
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
— Franz Boas
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
— B. R. Ambedkar
The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.
— Conor Oberst
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
— Robert Bork
I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.
— Judith Butler
I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
— Olivia Thirlby
All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law.
— Martin O'Malley
The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.
— Robert Reich
My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.
— Douglas Alexander
We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.
— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.
— Chiang Kai-shek
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
— Mike Honda
American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
— Charles A. Beard
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
— Charles Fourier
A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
— Zendaya
I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
— Barney Frank
The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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.
— Aristotle
I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.
— Brad Thor
I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
— Anne Hathaway
The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.
— Laura Chinchilla
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
— Bella Abzug
We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
— Ben Stein
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. 
— Carl Schurz
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
— Honore de Balzac
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
— Khalil Gibran
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.
— Malcolm X
Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
— Marquis de Lafayette
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
— Shirley Chisholm
Suffrage is the pivotal right.
— Susan B. Anthony
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
— Thomas Paine
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
— Maximilien Robespierre
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.
— Charlotte Bunch
Socialism values equality more than liberty.
— Dennis Prager
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
— Agnes Macphail
Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're reminded that we're all human and all equal. It's where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
— Queen Rania of Jordan
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
— Zadie Smith
The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.
— Nicholas Kristof
There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
— Susan B. Anthony
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
— Pope John XXIII
So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
— Bono
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
— Matt Bomer
One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.
— Michelle Bachelet
Fairness is not about statistical equality.
— John Bercow
Equality for women is progress for all.
— Ban Ki-moon
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
— Helen Clark
At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.
— Carol Gilligan
'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.
— Macklemore
If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.
— Christine Pelosi
Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.
— Henry Rollins
Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
— A. Philip Randolph
All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.
— Clara Zetkin
Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.
— Cory Booker
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
— Bob Ney
Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality.
— Steven Pinker
I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
— Yu Chui Yee
Wonder Woman, she's amazing. I love everything that she represents and everything that she stands for. She's all about love and compassion and truth and justice and equality, and she's a whole lot of woman.
— Gal Gadot
My goal is to show girls that I'm fighting so they don't have to, so they don't have to fight the same battles, so they don't have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.
— Alex Morgan
America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.
— Marco Rubio
I think 'I Spy,' still when you look at it, speaks volumes in terms of propaganda for equality. It's just magnificent.
— Bill Cosby
The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The untold secret driving the obstruction to Obama's economic equality agenda is this: The opposition isn't really battling Big Government. The opposition is protecting an economic system that's putting more and more of the earned income out of reach for those aspiring to better themselves.
— Donna Brazile
Doing difficult things like passing marriage equality, passing the Dream Act, doing common sense things that allow new American immigrants to fully participate, pay their taxes, play by the rules and take care of their families. That's the inclusive America that I believe all of us want to move to.
— Martin O'Malley
I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
— Natalie Dormer
Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).
— Rick Perlstein
I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil's advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do not guard every word that I say because I think that I know they know that my commitment to equality and justice is real, and they would not twist my words or misinterpret what I am saying to them.
— Jeff Sessions
The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal affairs. It is precisely because the U.N. is the chief guardian of both these sacrosanct principles that it alone is allowed to approve derogations from them.
— Shashi Tharoor
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
— Bashar al-Assad
Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America needs isn't a leader - it is education. Giving speeches and marching - that's not the concept that brings about real freedom, equality and justice.
— Don Yaeger
Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
— Robert Toombs
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
— Thomas Malthus
A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
— Nick Rahall
We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.
— Jerry Brown
This is the problem with modern-day feminism. It used to be about equality. Now, it's about bashing men, asking for free stuff, and tearing down other women for refusing to play victim to the trumped-up, B.S. 'War on Women.'
— Tomi Lahren
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
— Simone Weil
At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress.
— Marlee Matlin
I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.
— Josephine Baker
The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.
— Paul Martin
In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
— Felipe VI of Spain
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
— Toni Morrison
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
— Mercy Otis Warren
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
— Jimmy Carter
That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.
— B. R. Ambedkar
We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
— Barbara Boxer
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
— George Orwell
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.
— Katori Hall
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
— Mary Douglas