Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable rather than a vindictive peace.

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity fully fledged mutual acceptance full-blown mutual flourishing and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction personal adoration and moral admiration that is hard to find.

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

By nature all men are equal in liberty but not in other endowments.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no like 'I'll be the rock star you be the adulating fan.'

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection support justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less it grows feeble and when they disappear it will vanish too.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

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.