Quotes About Fairness

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.

I wish that the world's food was spread evenly on everybody's plate, and that no-one got more or less than anyone else.

The way I've always seen it is, I don't want him to do bad. I want him to do good. But when I'm competing with somebody, I want my best to be better than his. That's just how I've been. I'm not wishing bad for anybody.

Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.

I think my biggest trait is to play extremely hard within the rules of the game.

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

I like playing Italian teams. To me, they are the fairest sportsmen of them all. I don't agree with the Italy stereotypes - I trust in what I have experienced and witnessed.

Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.

It's vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country's opportunities are open to everyone - big or small, north or south, man or woman.

Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they're a woman. They don't want to be discriminated against because they're a woman.

Whether you're a man or a woman - whatever your gender - if you're doing a job, and you're doing it well, you should be paid accordingly.

Cricket is not gender biased. It isn't that men's cricket is different and women's a different one.

Whether it's salary or a promotion or a job, I think it's important for women to ask for what they think they deserve.

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.

I do think, of course, that women and men should be paid the same.

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.

What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.

The same actor plays the role of a thief and a police officer on-screen. It's not fair to look for role models in them.

The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.