Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

All men therefore among themselves are by nature equal; the inequality we now discern, hath its spring from the Civil Law.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

All men are equal before God, but all men are not equal before men because the differences are obvious.

Not many people appear to advocate—although most a quite prepared to tolerate—a society where some people are worth less than others.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. [In the post-communist era.]

Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.