Quotes About Fairness

The bad guys always fight dirty, and the good guys always fight clean.

It's good, sound business to treat all the teachers fairly, and I think it's a good story to tell.

Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.

No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.

Well, when you're fourteen years old, you can't afford to mix in a rock fight with your five-year-old brother. You can't do it, even when you're in the right. You just can't explain a thing like that to your folks. All they'll do is point out how much bigger you are, how unfair it is to your little brother.

To be accused was to be convicted, and to be convicted was to be punished; the one always following the other with immutable certainty.

the American people are disposed often to be generous rather than just.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

Equality before the enemy—first precondition for an honest duel.

Non possiamo essere imparziali. Possiamo essere soltanto intellettualmente onesti.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong? The sentence too weak, The sentence too strong. The penance too quick, The penance too long. Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

Good hearts weighed nothing with the queen.

America wins when the voiceless have a seat at the table, when the vulnerable are protected, and when working families have the same political clout as the wealthy.

Sometimes you watch a tournament with a point system, and it's not the best fighter that wins. It's the guy who scores more points and then he runs away and hides.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

When I married Munna, people didn't give our marriage even two months to survive. But we lasted for 12 years. The first 10 were magical. He's a fair man, a wise man.

Throughout my decade on the bench, I have watched my colleagues strive day in and day out to do just as Socrates said we should - to hear courteously, answer wisely, consider soberly, and decide impartially.

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.