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


-Honore de Balzac

posted in equality


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

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."

-Honore de Balzac

thanksgivingView Quote
"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."

-Honore de Balzac

womenView Quote
"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love."

-Honore de Balzac

womenView Quote
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

-Honore de Balzac

womenView Quote
"The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste."

-Honore de Balzac

womenView Quote
"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love."

-Honore de Balzac

wisdomView Quote

More Quotes About equality

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it."

-Slobodan Milosevic

equalityView Quote
"Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions."

-Slobodan Milosevic

equalityView Quote
"Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf."

-Alice S. Rossi

equalityView Quote
"The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment."

-Lyman Trumbull

equalityView Quote
"Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality."

-Harlan Stone

equalityView Quote
"If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing."

-John Hope

equalityView Quote