Quotes About Fairness

Note that everything that happens, happens justly, and if you observe carefully, you will find it to be so, not only with respect to the continuity of the series of things, but with respect to what is just, as if it were done by one who assigns to each thing its value.

We were made, Marcus tells us over and over, not for ourselves but for others, and our nature is fundamentally unselfish. In our relationships with others we must work for their collective good, while treating them justly and fairly as individuals.

For what is just and good is on my side.

undeviating firmness in giving to every man according to his deserts;

De mi padre[144] la gentileza, la firmeza sin oscilación en decisiones previamente analizadas; no vanagloriarse en lo que se considera motivo de honras; ser amigo del esfuerzo y perseverar; prestar oídos a quien tiene algo en bien del común que proponer; no dejarse pervertir al distribuir a cada

To righteousness, in speaking the truth freely, and without ambiguity; and in doing all things justly and discreetly.

In our relationships with others we must work for their collective good, while treating them justly and fairly as individuals.

Injustice results as often from not doing as from doing.

Qui una sola cosa ha valore: trascorrere tutta la vita nella verità e nella giustizia pur trattando con indulgenza i bugiardi e gli ingiusti.

In the Bible, the political issues—which are also religious—are about economic justice and fairness, peace and nonviolence.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Justice looks for no prize and no price; it is sought for itself, and is at once the cause and meaning of all the virtues. . . . The worst kind of injustice is to look for profit from injustice.

No one can be a sound judge if he does not give due weight to convincing suspicions.

We are born for justice, and . . . what is just is based, not on opinion, but on nature.

NOXIAE POENA PAR ESTO (let the punishment fit the crime).

It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow-men; of considerateness , not to wound their feelings; and in this the essence of propriety is best seen.

nothing is generous that is not at the same time just.

Justice is the mistress and queen of all the virtues.

El cariño es muy traicionero. La justicia tiene sus exigencias, pero el cariño pugna por ella

That way nobody feels exploited." "Wait a minute," says Stan. "Nobody's exploited?" "I said nobody feels exploited," says Budge. "Different thing.

Poetry deals with the core of human existence: life, death, renewal, change; as well as fairness and unfairness, injustice and sometimes justice. The world in all its variety.

It would be nice to believe that love should be dished out in a fair way so that everyone got some. But that wasn't how it was going to be for me.

If I was going to do something I didn't want to do, I at least wanted to be remunerated for it.

You think I didn't hate their pity, their forced kindness? And knowing that no matter what I did, how virtuous I was, or hardworking, I would never be beautiful. Not like her, the one who merely had to sit there to be adored. You wonder why I stabbed the blue eyes of my dolls with pins and pulled their hair out until they were bald? Life isn't fair. Why should I be?