There will never be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and to elect lawmakers.

-Anthony, Susan B(rownell)
In The Arena.

The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Culture and  Anarchy, ch.1.

Mr Sammler with his screwy visions! He saw the increasing triumph of EnlightenmentöLiberty, Equality, Adultery!

-Bellow, Saul
  Mr Sammler's Planet, ch.3.

Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

-Cooper,James Fenimore
  The American Democrat,'On the Disadvantages of a Monarchy'.

A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed, it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

-Faludi, Susan
  Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.

La majestueuse e¤  galite¤   des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. The majestic equality of laws forbids the rich as well as the poor tosleep under bridges, to beg inthestreets and to steal bread.

-Thibault
  Le Lys rouge.

La premie'  re e¤  galite¤  , c'est l'e¤  quite¤  . The first equality is equity.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Les Mise¤  rables, vol.4, bk.1, ch.4.

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark,7  Apr. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

Equality of opportunity does not mean equality of responsibility.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
   Address at Vanderbilt University,19 May.

At its birth, the republic gave voice to three wordsöLiberty,Equality,Fraternity! If Europeiswiseand just, each of those words signifies Peace.

-Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de
  A Manifesto to the Powers, 4 Mar.

L'amour de la de¤  mocratie est celui de l'e¤  galite¤  . Love of democracy is love of equality.

-Bre'  de et de
  De l'esprit des lois, vol.5, ch.3.

Si l'on recherche en quoi consiste pre¤  cise¤  ment le plus grand bien de tous, qui doit e"  tre le fin de tout syste'  me de le¤  gislation, on trouvera qu'il se re¤  duit a'   ces deux objets principaux, la liberte¤   et l'e¤  galite¤  . If we enquire wherein lies precisely the greatest good of all, which ought to be the goal of every system of law, we shall find that it comes down to two main objects, freedom and equality.

-Rousseau,JeanJacques
  Du contrat social (The Social Contract), bk.2, ch.11 (translated by M Cranston).

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  The IntelligentWoman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.

   Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Prime Minister to Phineas. The Prime Minister, ch.68.