"As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war."

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"Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve."

John Piper, American Clergyman

Equality, Truth, People, Diversity, Judgment

"Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, "Gentlemen, let's proceed," and sensing Ellie's frown would add, "Sorry, Miss Arroway, but I think of you as one of the boys." The highest compliment they were capable of paying was that in their minds she was not overtly female."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Equality, Gender, Respect, Recognition

"I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead."

Sheryl Sandberg, American Author

Equality, Leadership, Socialization, Gender Roles

"You're my equal. And as much as that means we have each other's backs in public, it also means we that grant each other the gift of honesty - of truth."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Equality, Honesty, Truth, Gift

"Celebrate people irrespective of their status or position."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Equality, Celebrate, People, Status

"We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally. Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Equality, Wealth, Time, Born, Surface

"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Equality, Inferiority, Fact

"Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Equality, Slaves, Poor, Free Men, Rich

"It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Equality, Law, Laws, May, Open

"It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care."

Sheryl Sandberg, American Author

Equality, Work-Life Balance, Household, Career

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"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."

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"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."

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"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise."

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"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."

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"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"

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"The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation."

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"Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist."

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"I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead."

"You're my equal. And as much as that means we have each other's backs in public, it also means we that grant each other the gift of honesty - of truth."

"Celebrate people irrespective of their status or position."

"We are all endowed with the wealth of time equally. Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth."

"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."

"Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich."

"It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts."

"It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care."

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"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."

"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."

"I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise."

"Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws."

"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people."

"Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer."

"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."

"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"

"The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation."

"Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist."