Quotes About Fairness

He ate what his men ate. No more.

Het was tien tegen tien. En dus was het geen eerlijk gevecht, legde Svengal later uit, want ze waren dus eigenlijk met drie keer zoveel als de tegenstander.

good lady" was anything but fair. She was middle-aged, overweight and plain in the extreme. But that was no reason why she should be subjected to this sort of terror, Halt thought grimly. She held back, whimpering with fear at the sight of the black figure before her.

We certainly hope that an entire family is not judged over the actions of one person.

He who is less than just is less than man.

This system of discrimination, an inculcated double standard, may vary in content from culture to culture, but it is always unjust. There are thousands of kinds of injustice but there is only one kind of justice - equal justice for all. To call for a little more justice, or a moderately gradual sort of justice, is to call for no justice. That is a simple truth.

affirmative action,

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Don't sell yourself short. No one will value you. Set a fair price for you, your book, your services, whatever it is that you have to offer. Most of us set way too low a price. Put it a little higher than you would normally be inclined to do. The worst that can happen is someone will come along and steal it.

There are enough diamonds in existence to give everyone on the planet a cupful.

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them … with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind, that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society, and that general fairness that cements mankind.

at least where there is enough, and as good, left in common for others.

He was only to look that he used them before they spoiled, else he took more than his share, and robbed others.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

It is easier to be generous than to be just.

Seeker could have peered inside Morgan's cottage, but some perversity moved her to play fair.

He was shining dark, and exceeding fair: beautiful and awful, his long hands pale as bones against the red velvet of his coat.

By what right does your world cast mine in shadow? What gives you the right to plenty?

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

Life may not be fair, but that doesn't give you any excuse not to be.

Sozialistin oder Feministin?' 'Ich könnte doch beides sein. Der Wunsch, dass es für Frauen gerechter zugeht, gehört doch zum Wunsch dazu, dass es für alle gerechter zugeht. Oder nicht?

I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.