Quotes for All
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food… The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population. Ernst Engel
Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior. Elizabeth Gaskell
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there’s a hexagram that says, \”Be like the sun at midday\”. View all things as being equal. Frederick Lenz
It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon’s presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty … Read more
All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal. Dorian Yates
No one enjoys being equal. David Mamet
A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative … Read more
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Chief Joseph
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid. Carl Sagan