Quotes About Fairness

Had he thought the power to make folk miserable was a greater power than to play fair with them? That was a mistake common to small-witted people—to think good was a weaker thing than evil. From all that Joliffe had seen, evil—in both its greater ways and in such petty ones as bullying—was the weak man's

If a technology is beneficial, everyone should have it. If it is not, no one should have it.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

God gives each his due at the time allotted.

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.

No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

Il mondo va male perché la gente pensa solo agli affari propri, e non si preoccupa mai di prendere le parti di chi è ingiustamente oppresso o di smascherare i malfattori. Per fortuna

If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind: if, on the other hand, she is disagreeable in person and character, her plainness is commonly inveighed against as her greatest crime, because, to common observers, it gives the greatest offence; while, if she is plain and good, provided she is a person of retired manners and secluded life, no one ever knows of her goodness, except her immediate connections

I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would make it a benefit to both themselves and others.

Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.

I can feel for anyone that is unjustly treated...and I can feel for those that injure them too.

All's fair in love and war.

If anyone is so good that he or she should be spared, you can safely assume that person is in the line of fire. Fair is where the pony rides are.

I never used to take my turn. I always gave my turn away. I helped others have a great turn. I must have had a clipboard by the time I was six, because by then I had a whole caseload of people to keep track of. After they had all gotten a turn, then maybe I could go, if there was time and it didn't bother anyone. Now I take my turn, as a radical act.

Oi didn't loike that bloke, Captain. Bastard, 'e were, but Oi s'pose rules is for them yer don't loike. Yer won't 'urt them as yer do. In't that what God's about, been fair to them as rubs your coat all the wrong way?

That you have one set of rules for yourselves, and another for us

History is a litany of injustice, no one denies it. But when has a simple solution ever been anything but evil? Only in complexity do we find answers. Through complexity men struggle towards fairness; it is slow and clumsy, but it's the only way. Simplicity demands too great a sacrifice. It always has. - Lestat

Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?