Quotes About Fairness

This is not a meritocracy.

magis quid se dignum foret, quam quid in illos iure fieri posset, quaerebant.

You cannot kill or steal from a man while he is asleep and heartbroken. While it is said that everything is fair in love an war, the dictum is nullified when both love and war occur simultaneously...

Let's create a legal system that can work.

They are democratic with their time—communicating with everyone equally and making sure all team members get a chance to contribute.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

Human rights were cut off from the dream of globally fair distribution that the global south itself advocated during the 1970s.

Worse, human rights lost their original connection with a larger egalitarian aspiration, focusing on sufficient provision instead.

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that you're guaranteed fairness. And three: there's only right and wrong.

But just remember, the world has a way of balancing out: when someone is given back, something else must be taken away.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.

Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.

The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National

Time at length becomes justice.

Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.