Quotes About Fairness

We Democrats believe in an America where no matter who you are or where you come from, you should have an equal shot at success.

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

The problem with the Mindset of a fair Democracy is that it purports to be a fair and trustworthy system, but history shows clearly how the voters' trust has been constantly abused.

Business is win-win, everything else shades into crime.

Justice without mercy is tyranny

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

Precisamos de um senso de justiça, mas precisamos também de senso comum, de imaginação, de uma capacidade profunda de imaginar o outro, às vezes de nos colocarmos na pele do outro. Precisamos da capacidade racional de nos comprometer e, às vezes, de fazer sacrifícios e concessões. p. 53

Justice without compassion isn't justice; it's an abattoir.

Shobha announced, trying to lighten the mood. "And I'll keep all the books," Girish said in the same spirit. "Fair enough. But not the records. I take most

Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.

The idea of deserving love. And then watching love being given to people who did nothing to deserve it.

I'm not going to let the book go for a song—and I'm not going to let Kahane get the idea that he's doing me a favor by publishing it.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls - Lenny Bruce

Just because there is one bad apple in the barrow, does not mean all the apples are bad. If you dig into the barrow, it is guaranteed to have a few apples that are not spoiled.

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

The only purpose of government—as opposed to the state of nature—is to replace "might makes right" with a system of justice.

Don't you see? The BITs aren't working out, either. They're just not ready, which isn't fair to us or our clients. And we're starting to resent the BITs, which isn't fair to them. You have to look at the whole picture. Firing them is the best decision for everybody. Just like your moving to California was the best decision. I mean, sure Jeff will be disappointed when you tell him.

Our system of justice should reflect an understanding that any of us could have been dealt a very different hand in life. In fact, it seems immoral not to recognize just how much luck is involved in morality itself.