Quotes About Fairness

The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work.

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

For us, the conversation is always about getting paid what we feel like we're worth and getting paid as the sport grows and as we help grow the sport.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

One is often guilty by being too just.

If I'm forced to leave West Ham, it will be done according to the rules - the club will have its share of the cake.

The 'rob from the rich, give to the poor' is more of a general overview than a specific thing we have to do every time. It really means making sure those who have too much do some sharing with those who have too little, and it isn't always just about valuables or money or even basic things like food. It is also about sharing power and opportunities.

Bert and Dehlia had planted the seed of thought in her mind, and it was growing away busily putting out new shoots of thought, all of which were quite bothersome, because they were about things like responsibility and fairness, and thinking about others, and why being a princess perhaps should be about more than just having a nice library and three meals a day, particularly when other people didn't have these things...

A positive message delivered in a negative manner will always reap negative results. As one child said, "My parents are yelling and screaming at me, telling me not to yell and scream. They expect me to do something they have not learned to do. It's unfair.

Anger, then, is the emotion that arises whenever we encounter what we perceive to be wrong. The emotional, physiological, and cognitive dimensions of anger leap to the front burner of our experience when we encounter injustice.

Good comes to those who lend money generously and conduct their business fairly. —Psalm 112:5

Be kind to the poor and treat others fairly, for both acts demonstrate love. — Helene C. Kuoni

But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere. —James 3:17

Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

Without an understanding of trial by evidence, trial by innuendo might easily triumph.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Why do you condemn a man who you have never seen, whom no one knows about and whom you yourself know nothing?

Why do you condemn a man you've never seen, a man no one knows, a man you know nothing about?

But love is the last need a group has, not the first. If it were the first, there could be no such groups. Justice is the first need, the mortar that binds together a village or a town, or even a city. Or the crew of a boat. No one would take part in any such thing if he did not believe that he would be treated fairly.

You are the advocate of the dead.' The old man nodded. 'I am. People talk about being fair to this one and that one, but nobody I ever heard talks about doing right by them. We take everything they had, which is all right. And spit, most often, on their opinions, which I suppose is all right too. But we ought to remember now and then how much of what we have we got from them. I figure while I'm still here I ought to put a word in for them.

It is ful fair a man to bere him evene,/For alday meeteth men at unset stevene.

And, in his noble heart, he pondered a moment and then soft unto himself he said, "Fie upon a Lord that will show no mercy, but will be as a lion, in word and in deed, both to those who are remorseful and afeared, as well as to the haughty unrepentant man, and who will judge the guilty and the innocent alike. That Lord has little of discernment, who, in such a case, knows of no distinction, but weighs arrogance and humility upon an equal scale.

For whosoever seeks to snatch away from another those things that be his own, deserves to lose his own through him who he seeks to wrong.

One cannot speak of an injustice of nature in the unequal distribution of possessions and resources, for nature is not free and is therefore neither just nor unjust.