#equality

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#god #reality #equality

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#miracles #spiritual #equality

From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time ↗

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

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The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#us-president #equality

Sirius shook his head and said, "She's got the measure of Crouch better than you have, Ron. If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#sirius-black #equality

The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#equality

On Power: 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

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Nothing is more unequal than equality itself. ↗

— Pliny the Younger

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The fundamentalists were equally stymied. “We were worried about Adam and Steve,” a Baptist minister said. “Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy? ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#shifters #equality

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#inferiority #equality