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Quotes About Fairness

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.
~ Gary Lineker
I think the first duty of society is justice.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
~ Rene Descartes
Parents today are self-absorbed. They don't care what anyone thinks or even what their children think. There is less focus on discipline, integrity, boundaries, fairness, honesty and spirituality.
~ GloZell
When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.
~ Elaine Stritch
Businesses, the State, and the third sector should join forces for a fairer society around the theme of diversity and inclusion in the supply chain, diverse suppliers in general, and work and procurement with women in particular.
~ Ofra Strauss
Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.
~ James May
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.
~ Tom T. Hall
We're journalists, and so it's our job to be impartial and provide a fair and thorough assessment of what's happening on the ground from the perspective of what we're able to see.
~ Clarissa Ward
Law enforcement agents need to be vetted more thoroughly and psychologically and emotionally to see who they are, if they're really built for fairness in all communities.
~ Lynn Whitfield
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
~ Eugene V. Debs
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'
~ Sophocles
Thou shalt not ration justice.
~ Learned Hand
If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
~ Learned Hand
Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That's my thoughts.
~ Conor McGregor
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
~ John Ray
It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
~ Rosanna Arquette
And he feels grateful that he has been left with this one substantial relic of all his years of service and thinks how sincerely he has deserved this. Yet he knows the world in which people deserve things or do not deserve them is passing away. Europe is at war. Fairness is now becoming a word without meaning.
~ Rose Tremain
May the only justice you face be poetic.
~ Rupert Holmes
That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.
~ Rush Limbaugh
America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.
~ Rush Limbaugh
It is supposed to be in very bad taste to discuss a person behind his back; and to discuss a dead person behind his back is most unfair, for he cannot even retaliate.
~ Ruskin Bond
While the world may be large, complex, and hard, and unfair; it is also knowable. It can be understood. Once understood, it can be directed, controlled, and improved.
~ Ryan North
Engross what is just, repudiate what is unjust.
~ Ryan Pack