Top 105 Equals Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Equals Quotes from famous people such as Jean-Claude Juncker, Mignon McLaughlin, Stephen Covey, Carles Puigdemont, Evan Osnos, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

In a union of equals, there can be no second-class cons

In a union of equals, there can be no second-class consumers. I will not accept that in some parts of Europe, people are sold food of lower quality than in other countries, despite the packaging and branding being identical.
Jean-Claude Juncker
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
Stephen Covey
We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It’s the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.
Carles Puigdemont
China doesn’t have a single leader. It has – a first among equals is the president, and his name will probably be Xi Jinping, almost certainly.
Evan Osnos
The Hebrew Bible has long been the world’s possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim.
Cynthia Ozick
Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.
Herman Melville
A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
Gary Zukav
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Harper Lee
The open street, like the open sea, is an inviting thing to the mind of man. It is one of the few places where all may meet as equals under sun or rain; but only a John Bunyan could adequately portray the danger of the cities with their pitfalls for the young unguarded feet.
Edwin Markham
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
Jane Elliot
Education equals economic growth.
Julia Gillard
I want to invite the mainstream into my world and to my sound and to what I’m doing. And I want mainstream artists to respect me and accept Latino artists as equals without us having to sing in English. I want them to know that I can compete globally, with whomever, in Spanish.
J Balvin
That’s always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there’s equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.
Laila Robins
Here is what I know. When you’re running a successful company or an organization, you can take this human equation to the bank: underconfidence plus insecurity always equals paranoia and backstabbing.
Anthony Scaramucci
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling
I treat everyone as equals. I can’t work if I’m not having fun, and I can’t have fun if not everyone is happy.
Stellan Skarsgard
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.
Leon Bourgeois
Prayer is commitment. We don’t merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
E. Stanley Jones
For people living with HIV, the knowledge that undetectable equals untransmittable is huge news, not only as a means of preventing transmission, but in breaking down the stigma that many people still experience.
Courtney Act
If you want to do ‘Sword & Sandals’ movies, people think that means it equals ‘epic.’
Kevin Macdonald
When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.
Jason Mraz
One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it’s worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow’s leaders.
Danny Meyer
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I’m not a standup comedian. I don’t sing.
Viola Davis
The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world – among the greatest cities in the world.
Paul Theroux
I have been brought up in a house where animals are our friends and we treat them as equals.
Akhil Akkineni
I feel you need to treat children as equals instead of giving them a complex – you are young, you are small, you don’t know.’
Pankaj Kapur
What’s important now are the characteristics of the brain’s right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.
Daniel H. Pink
The decision in Citizens United said that money equals speech, a position that I – and a vast majority of Americans, in poll after poll – could not disagree with more.
Patrick Murphy
I grew up looking at my parents as equals.

I grew up looking at my parents as equals.
Mona Eltahawy
Analysis of the composition of samples of DNA from a great variety of sources and by many investigators revealed the remarkable fact that the purine content always equals the pyrimidine content.
Arthur Kornberg
Trout plus bacon is one of civilization’s greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure.
Jonathan Miles
If professionalism in golf equals athleticism, then athleticism should be promoted and showcased, and that means allowing the clothes that promote it.
Paige Spiranac
Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.
Rei Kawakubo
Donald Trump is a man who likes to think he has few equals.
Michelle Dean
Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.
Malcolm X
But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.
Mark Rylance
Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.
Greg Boyle
Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.
Martin McGuinness
An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.
Christian Slater
Less money in your wallet equals less economic freedom.
Margaret Hoover
One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.
Charlotte Rampling
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.
Suzanne Fields
I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young staffer, he never treated me or my colleagues as anything else but equals.
John Yarmuth
Self-care equals success. You’re going to be more successful if you take care of yourself and you’re healthy.
Beth Behrs
It would be really dangerous for us to assume that Christian hip-hop’s popularity equals racial unity.
Trip Lee
My vision is a Malawi where men and women live in peace and in harmony as equals enjoying their human rights.
Joyce Banda
People love our products. They love using our services. All of this, to me, equals great opportunity.
Tim Cook
People have pain – they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.
Jennifer Garner
In the sick room, ten cents’ worth of human understanding equals ten dollars’ worth of medical science.
Martin H. Fischer
Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I don’t believe there is a need for a first among equals when it comes to the industry’s top actors.
Suresh Gopi
In ‘Losing My Cool,’ I argue repeatedly that it is a terrible lie, which has been foisted on us and sold to us for decades now, that hip-hop culture equals black culture, that being authentically black means keeping it real.
Thomas Chatterton Williams
All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer
It’s amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There’s some sort of unspoken license… when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
Jeff Dunham
If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what’s normal and what’s right and what’s wrong.
Kevin Sorbo