#quality

Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's panties in the laundry basket. Equally important, will find sensible boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobic's, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts. And especially will not fantasize about a particular person who embodies all these things ↗

— Helen Fielding

#self-improvement #equality

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. ↗

— Aristotle

#equality #governement #law #political-philosophy #rights

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#equality

In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#marriage #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

#equality

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