Quotes About Fairness

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

America must be "neutral in fact as well as in name . . . impartial in thought as well as action.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

In conclusion, we would say that in forming Pharaoh God displayed neither justice nor injustice, but only His bare sovereignty.

Si yo quisiera ser justo, sería juez.

Masyarakat yang sebagian anggotanya mengeksploitasi sebagian anggota lainnya yang lemah dan tertindas tidak dapat disebut sebagai masyarakat Islam (Islamic society)

Even though the National Jury Project had done a study of Middlesex County and had found that eighty-three percent of the people had heard about my case in the media and seventy percent had already formulated an opinion about my guilt, the kourt maintained that i could receive a fair trial.

Anyone who goes to law puts himself in the hands of an unscrupulous ring of bandits and thugs who milk both parties as hard as they can until one of them has to pay. If one allows for the stupidity and prejudice of judges, conceit and idleness of barristers, and diffuseness of English law, neither side can have a more certain chance of winning a legal action than on a tossed coin, which is a much cheaper way of settling things.

There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless "law" is equated with justice and "order" with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.

It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.

All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism.

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.

justice and the birch.

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Patience and gravity of hearing, is an essential part of justice; and an overspeaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal.

Some build rather upon the abusing of others, and (as we now say) putting tricks upon them, than upon soundness of their own proceedings.

The lawyer is judged by the virtue of his pleading, and not by the issue of the cause.

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.

The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Justice can rarely exist without honesty.