#ali

All men are created Equal. Some just have more Splenda. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#equality #funny #humanity #humor #inequality

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success). ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#equality

I don't want a man who stands in front of me, because all I see is his back. I don't want a man to stand behind me, because I'd have to dwell on the past just to see his face. I want a man that stands beside me. An equal that holds my hand through whatever mountains and oceans we may cross. Someone who I can trust. I just want your love. ↗

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#equality

- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#equality

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking ... ↗

— John Irving

#equality

I’ll trade my formal neckwear for your love, if your love has an equal or greater value to $14.95.
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— Jarod Kintz

#formal-neckwear #love #price #tie #ties

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#equilibrium #harmony #mathematics #metaphysics #physics

Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#faerie #equality

I want to price my next book and adjust it for the coming hyperinflation. So instead of the normal one dollar price, I’ll charge $1,000,000.00. If I sell one copy now I’ll be a happy man, and if I sell a million copies after hyperinflation hits in a few years then I’ll be equally as happy.
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— Jarod Kintz

#hyperinflation #inflation #price #equality

If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard. ↗

— Arthur Japin

#tolerance #equality