| "Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." »Thomas Sowell |
| "Agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." »Matrix, The |
| "All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism." »B. J. Gupta |
| "All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods." »Victor Cousin |
| "Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law." »Clarence Thomas |
| "The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses." »John Martin Fischer |
| "Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life." »Meryl Streep |
| "We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage." »Frederick Buechner |
| "It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal." »Helen Keller |
| "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks." »Phillips Brooks |
| "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle." »Phillips Brooks |
| "When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." »George Orwell |
| "Have no friends not equal to yourself." »Confucius |
| "As men, we are all equal in the presence of death." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes." »John Donne |
| "An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts." »John Junor |
| "The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." »Aristotle |
| "For every action there is an equal and opposite government program." »Bob Wells |
| "A woman's always younger than a man of equal years." »Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| "Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." »Timothy Leary |
| "Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference." »Voltaire |
| "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." »Charles Simic |
| "One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests." »John Stuart Mill |
| "Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal." »Hannah Arendt |
| "To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men." »Jane Addams |
| "Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there." »E. M. Cioran |
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