Oriana Fallaci Quotes

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

Fishing reminds us that all men are created equal before fish. They don’t jump on a President’s line any faster than anyone else’s.

I never really am in awe of people because we are just equal at the end of the day.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

The intelligent quest is for the free society with equality of opportunity. The quest for equality of result is the path to the widest equality of all: despotism.

Principles which united American liberals for generations, now divide me from some who seek equality of result and who sanction the preferences imposed by government to attain it.

Matters goeth not well to pass in England, nor shall not do till everything be in common … that there be no greater masters than we be.

Our goal is a classless society.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

Every one is a man. if you walk on two legs, you're a man. It's that simple.

… fresh proof that the powers of the mind are disconnected with the color of the skin.

It is in order that each one of you, through this free government which we have enjoyed, have an open field and a fair chance for your industry, enterprise and intelligence.... It is for this the struggle should be maintained.

Racial preferences are dead. All that is required now is to give them a decent and honorable burial.

In America, opportunity and equality are not a zero-sum game

We hold the view that all men are created equal." Now, what did they mean by that? Did they mean, my friends, to say that all men were created equal and that that meant that any one man was born to inherit $10 billion and that another child was to be born to inherit nothing? Did that mean, my friends, that someone would come into this world without having had an opportunity, of course, to have hit one lick of work, should be born with more than it and all of its children and children's children could every dispose of, but that another one would have to be born into a life of starvation?

There is nothing in the Lawes or Customes of England, which excludes any the meanest man’s Childe, from arriving to the highest Offices in the this Kingdom

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist…. no one since Thomas Jefferson ... has really believed it.

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

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration.

Here, no privileged orders – no factitious distinctions in society – no hereditary nobility – no royal prerogatives exist, to interpose barriers between the people, and to create distinct classifications in society. All men being considered as enjoying an equality of rights, the propriety and necessity of dispensing, without distinction, the blessings of education ….

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to be like each other.

Honor to the French! They have taken good care of the two greatest human needs—good eating and civic equality.