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Quotes About Fairness

I never made a fortune by defrauding others.
~ Jagapathi Babu
I like fighting clean. I've always fought clean, and I want to fight clean people. I want to fight fair.
~ Luke Rockhold
The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I will accept the results when the election is free and clean. I cannot accept fraud.
~ Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
I am a believer in free trade, fair free trade.
~ Juan Manuel Santos
I think there's no such thing as free trade. I think there has to be fair trade.
~ Kevin de Leon
I'm the same as anyone else. If you are as good at a job as someone else, but they get three or four times more, you get a bit frustrated.
~ Robert Green
He had the very greatest admiration. He admire her for her truthfulness, for her cleanness of mind, and the clean-run-ness of her limbs, for her efficiency, for the fairness of her skin, for the gold of her hair, for her religion, for her sense of duty. It was a satisfaction to take her about with him.
~ Ford Madox Ford
Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Look, girls. It is important to all of us that we win this game, right? Well, when it comes to athletics, boys are simply better suited than girls. It's a fact of nature that no one can change. I'm sorry, but maybe you can play next time when it's less crucial.
~ Francine Pascal
Who asks for justice? We make our own justice.
~ Frank Herbert
There's no such thing as equal justice anywhere. It's unsettling to a society when you try to achieve such a false balance.
~ Frank Herbert
La verdadera religión debe enseñar que la vida está repleta de alegrías gratas a los ojos de Dios, y que el conocimiento sin acción está vacío. Todos los hombres deben recordar que la enseñanza de una religión solo por medio de reglas y ejemplos ajenos es una completa mixtificación. Una enseñanza justa y correcta se reconoce con facilidad. Se intuye de inmediato, porque despierta la sensación de que algo se conoce desde siempre».
~ Frank Herbert
Legile cer întotdeauna s? fie interpretate. Cel care se priponeÈ™te de lege nu vrea s? lase nicio È™ans? compasiunii. Nicio marj? de manevr?. "Legea e lege!
~ Frank Herbert
Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. No, it was a question of fairness, a concept that went much deeper. The people upon whom judgment was passed must feel the fairness of it.
~ Frank Herbert
I appealed to my mother. I told her it wasn't fair the way the whole family was invading my dreams and she said, Arrah, for the love o' God, drink your tea and go to school and stop tormenting us with your dreams.
~ Frank McCourt
An old man dies, a young woman lives. Fair trade.
~ Frank Miller
I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.
~ Franz Kafka
Judgement does not come suddenly; the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement.
~ Franz Kafka
Justice has to be motionless or else the scales will waver that and there is no possibility of a correct judgement
~ Franz Kafka
We're only being punished because you reported us. Otherwise nothing would have happened to us, even if they found out what we did. Can that be called justice?
~ Franz Kafka
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.
~ Harvey Fierstein
Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were born to poor parents.
~ Abhijit Banerjee