#quality

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#equality #everybody #identifying #people #thinks

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

#add #color #does #pleasant #quality

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule. ↗

— James Bovard

#before #equality #fathers #founding #founding fathers

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are higher than Warren Buffet's. If we're all equally a bunch of suckers, how could any of us be worth hating? ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#culture #politics #equality

It goes back to keeping things equal. Friendship feels really demeaning if one person still likes the other more, which is probably what caused the breakup in the first place. It’s such a misnomer that ‘boyfriend’ and ‘girlfriend’ have the word ‘friend’ in them." "I don’t know, Dom. It’s screwed up that people who dug each other enough to go out can’t at least stay friends afterward. "Spoken by a true love virgin. ↗

— Daria Snadowsky

#love #relationships #sex #equality

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#women #equality

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#feminism #othello #equality

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

#about #advance #governments #how #learn

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#equality #feminism #beauty