Momina Mustehsan Quotes

For our part we regard all human life as equally sacred, whether it be the life of an Empress or the life of a charwoman, and we have no desire to emulate our contemporaries in their attempt to magnify the horror of a crime because the victim belonged to the former rank of life rather than the latter.

He that despises his neighbor's happiness because he wears a worsted cap or a leather apron, he that struts immeasurably above the lower size of the people, and pretends to adjust the rights of the men by the distinctions of fortune

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

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

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

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

It is a mistake to condemn a horse for being slim and to condemn a capable person for being poor.

In every country, and under every government, particular men may be too rich.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

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.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.