Equitable Quotes:

If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.

- Douglas MacArthur

source: Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

topic: Doors, Armageddon, Equitable

We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat.

- Kofi Annan

source: YouTube Chanel "Skoll.org"/ "Kofi Annan: The World I'm Working To Create", www.youtube.com. August 12, 2013.

topic: Mind, Needs, World, Needs Of Others, Equitable

People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

- Richard Neal

topic: Believe, People, Achievement, Equitable, Tax System

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

- Donald Berwick

source: "'Glenn Beck': Who Is Donald Berwick?". www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2010.

topic: Care, Definitions, Wealth, Less Fortunate, Equitable

One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.

- Janez Drnovsek

topic: Fundamentals, World, Today, Equitable, Globalisation

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

- Peter Garrett

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cutting, Needs, Looks, Equitable

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

- Lauren Bacall

topic: Women, Party, Mean, Settlement, Divorce Lawyers

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

- I. F. Stone

source: I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.227, PublicAffairs

topic: Doubt, Trying, Problem, Equitable

Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

- Dana Rohrabacher

topic: Equitable

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Opportunity, Together, Our Society, Equitable, Distribution Of Wealth

All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.

- Coretta Scott King

topic: Wisdom, Country, America, Equitable

With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.

- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

source: Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day, March 22, 2013.

topic: Order, Water, Effort, Joint Efforts, International Cooperation

If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world.

- Bob Torres

source: Bob Torres (2007). “Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights”, p.7, AK Press

topic: Real, Believe, Roots, Equitable, Root Cause

The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinion? And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up, trusting our fellow citizens to join us in our determined pursuit-a living democracy?

- Terry Tempest Williams

source: Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “The Open Space of Democracy”, p.83, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Giving Up, Home, Heart, Equitable, First Home

The young generation of today is globally connected. They want to live in an equitable and efficient India. We have to be ready for this, and work for this.

- Narendra Modi

topic: Young Generation, India, Generations, Equitable

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Quality, Foundation, Quality Education, Equitable

I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. We must all learn to work not just for our own self, family, or nation but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Sense Of Responsibility, Equitable

I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Equitable, Physical Strength

To build a more healthy, peaceful and equitable world the classrooms of the world have to be full of girls as well as boys

- Kofi Annan

topic: Girl, Boys, Healthy, Equitable

Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been cleverly, cunningly, and consistently scuttled and rendered ineffectual by those castes and that class of people which has a stranglehold on the political process.

- Arundhati Roy

source: Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.41, South End Press

topic: Real, Land, Class, Equitable

That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like.

- Rebecca Solnit

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Ideas, Trying, Looks, Equitable

Russia, as well as any other country, does not need dictators, but it needs equitable principles of organizing the state and society: just, effective, flexibly responding to changes inside and outside the country - that is what Russia needs.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: www.russianembassy.org

topic: Country, Russia, Principles, Inside And Outside, Equitable

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

- Evo Morales

topic: Past, Community, Way, Equitable

If we don't have an egalitarian, equitable, and peaceful society, being very wealthy isn't worth much. If I can make a little bit of a dent in addressing this issue, I'll have done my service.

- Amit Bhatia

topic: Issues, Peaceful, Done, Peaceful Society, Equitable

To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually Sarvodaya or the rise of all. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.

- Sonia Gandhi

source: "Celebrating 100 years of Satyagraha". www.dnaindia.com. January 29, 2007.

topic: Numbers, Growth, Saws, Equitable

We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.

- Salman Rushdie

source: "Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002". Book by Salman Rushdie, 2003.

topic: Fashion, Cutting, Kissing, Equitable, Beauty Love

The way in which we can promote peace, is by promoting sustainable management of our resources, equitable distribution of these resources, and that the only way you can actually do that, is that then you have to have a political, economic system that facilitates that. And then you get into the issues of human rights, justice, economic justice, social justice, and good governance or democratic governance. That's how it ties up.

- Wangari Maathai

topic: Issues, Ties, Rights, Economic Justice, Equitable

Considering that future generations will be far better off than current generations even after accounting for climate change, it would be more equitable for today's industrialized world to help solve the real problems facing today's poorer developing world than to mitigate climate change now to help reduce the burden on future populations that would not only be wealthier but also technologically superior.

- Indur M. Goklany

topic: Real, World, Today, Equitable, Current Generation

It's important to know that, unlike lawyers, land surveyors put the public interest first. That means we're not biased by our client - this means that the property line will be drawn in the most equitable position, regardless of which neighbor is paying the bill.

- Mark Mason

topic: Mean, Land, Important, Surveyors, Land Surveyor

In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past 10 years where these officers were involved. This is a shameful incident that the public deserves to have addressed in a meaningful and expeditious manner.

- George Gascon

source: "San Francisco prosecutor to probe old cases over racist texts by police". www.reuters.com. March 17, 2015.

topic: Meaningful, Past, Order, Equitable, Criminal Justice System

I love this planet I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

- Ted Turner

topic: Thoughtful, Race, World, Kind Hearted, Equitable

For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.

- John Locke

source: John Locke (1751). “Works”, p.207

topic: Men, Thinking, Law, Equitable

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

- Adam Smith

source: Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.167, VM eBooks

topic: Differences, Favors, Regulation, Workmen, Equitable

To trust arms in the hands of the people at large has, in Europe, been believed...to be an experiment fraught only with danger. Here by a long trial it has been proved to be perfectly harmless...If the government be equitable; if it be reasonable in its exactions; if proper attention be paid to the education of children in knowledge and religion, few men will be disposed to use arms, unless for their amusement, and for the defense of themselves and their country.

- Timothy Dwight V

topic: Country, Children, Gun, Equitable

To think that land reform is going to somehow automatically create an equitable system, I think that's just wrong. It's a very technical view of the world.

- Pankaj Mishra

topic: Thinking, Views, Land, Equitable

Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1173, Delphi Classics

topic: Law, Wealth, Rich, Equitable

We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.

- John Shelby Spong

source: Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

topic: Strong, Democracy, Unions, Social Contract, Equitable

As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems of law and of political economy. While admitting its great importance, we cannot conceal the fact that the writers on those subjects have wholly failed to distinguish between its use and its abuse, or to recognize its rational and equitable limits.

- Joshua K. Ingalls

topic: Taken, Law, Political, Equitable

The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic to assume that the present economy would be just fine if only it would stop poisoning the air and water, or if only it would stop soil erosion, or if only it would stop degrading watersheds and forest ecosystems, or if only it would stop seducing children, or if only it would stop buying politicians, or if only it would give women and favored minorities an equitable share of the loot?

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

topic: Children, Air, Ecosystems, Soil Erosion, Watersheds

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

- Wangari Maathai

topic: Fighting, Land, Oil, Land And Water, Equitable

An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that which is equitable and good it is for them to direct their own movements, to seek in the their conscience reasons for their actions, and to perform them simply, without either fearing punishment or looking for reward.

- Elisee Reclus

topic: Punishment, Movement, Rewards, Equitable

It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?

- Koichiro Matsuura

topic: Educational, Democracy, Information, Information Society, Illiterate

Broad access to opportunity is the key to a truly equitable America. No matter who you are or where you grew up, Black Faces in White Places provides a blueprint to seizing opportunities at hand - and expanding opportunity for your entire community.

- Angela Glover Blackwell

source: "Song: Touch ("Come Closer")". April 7, 2006.

topic: Opportunity, White, America, Where You Grew Up, Equitable

Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and hatred of Israel and the US in the Arab and Muslim worlds - and far beyond, as international polls reveal. Such an agreement is surely within reach, if the US and Israel depart from their long-standing rejectionism.

- Noam Chomsky

source: "Apocalypse Near (Part One)". Interview with Merav Yudilovitch, www.ynetnews.com. August 04, 2006.

topic: Israel, Agreement, Long, Muslim World, Within Reach

This book is a must for anyone who wants to know how leaders develop their practices within a community context. Bordas has pulled together illuminating examples with great lessons for anyone working to create an equitable and truly diverse society.

- Rinku Sen

topic: Book, Practice, Community, Equitable, Diverse Society

Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

- Willy Brandt

source: Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”

topic: War, Opportunity, Being Thankful, War On Poverty, Ending Poverty

I have therefore come to the opinion that the most reasonable recourse for the humanization of society and its institutions is to abandon them and begin again to build a society with a just, equitable and compassionate economy with justice, equality, and reverence for all life insured by the goals and forms of all its institutions.

- Manitonquat

topic: Justice, Goal, Opinion, Equitable, Justice Equality

It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and economic structures a more equitable and solidaristic configuration.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Roots, Giving, Justice, Configuration, Equitable

We should know that only replacing the economics of competition and greed with the economics of equitable cooperation will guarantee a globalization that takes advantage of potential efficiency gains in ways that also promote environmental protection, international equity, economic democracy, and variety.

- Robin Hahnel

source: Robin Hahnel (1999). “Panic rules!: everything you need to know about the global economy”, South End Pr

topic: Greed, Competition, Environmental, Environmental Protection, Equitable

Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth's largesse. When Africa, which gave us the wealth of life, has that debt returned, the world will have come of age.

- Bob Brown

topic: Past, Together, Age, Largesse, Equitable