Hugh Downs Quotes

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

No one enjoys being equal.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

I look like everyone.

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

… the great equalizer.

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.

I think if everyone looked the same, it would be a bit boring.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

I am treated no different than the other girls.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

I want to make things equal.