Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on e... -Honore de Balzac

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

Honore de Balzac , Novelist
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Honore de Balzac Quotes to Explore

A mother who is really a mother is never free....
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....
Love is the poetry of the senses....
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught....
There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power....
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime....
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing....
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories....
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart....
Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact....

Equality Quotes to Explore

Equality has long been the end goal of historically oppressed populations in the United States....
Like Native Americans and African-Americans, women and LGBTQ people, Puerto Ricans should be seen as part of the same overarching struggle for equalit...
As a child of the Bronx who grew up in the projects, I was often too scared to come out of the closet, too blinded to see clearly my own value, my own...
I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist. I'm also a constitutionalist, and we h...
It drives me batty that there isn't more equality in my business....
Equality means allowing people to achieve their full potential - for themselves and for their country....
One of the privileges of my adult life has been meeting pioneers of LGBT equality, particularly Waheed Alli, Michael Cashman and Ian McKellen....
We want Black and White to be treated equally in this country, but we cannot heal this country, we can't save race relations, we can't accomplish equa...
Equity' is only two letters away from 'equality,' after all, and who would object to that? But in those two letters is a world of difference. 'Equity'...
I'm not just equality minister I am also a Treasury secretary....