Quotes About Fairness

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Por la misma razón la justicia parece ser, entre todas las demás virtudes, la única que constituye un bien extraño, un bien para los demás y no para sí, porque se ejerce respecto a los demás, y no hace más que lo que es útil a los demás, que son o los magistrados o el pueblo entero.

Equals should be treated equally and unequals unequally.

From whence it is evident, that those who seek for what is just, seek for a mean; now law is a mean.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality

Man was, therefore, still a prisoner on his own planet. It was much fairer, but a much smaller, planet than it had been a century before. When the Overlords abolished war and hunger and disease, they had also abolished adventure.

It's every man's business to see justice done.

We're an equal-opportunity abuser here. (Syd)

It's not fair to show someone the sun and then to banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.

It isn't fair, it isn't right, Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

But generals who warm themselves by the fire in a tent should not reproach the soldiers that are taken prisoner

Anatomy is destiny, and it is indeed grim destiny that a man who wishes to impose his will on a woman often has the means of physical force available to him. The same is not generally true in reverse. This biological fact of nature is not fair. But there is no fairness in nature. There is only nature in nature.

No hay libertad sin justicia

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

Gerechtigkeit kann innerhalb der Ungerechtigkeit nie geschaffen werden.

One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship. Exactly, in every respect, including the slightest details of accent and attitude, for a detail may be enough to place the weaker party in the condition of matter, which on this occasion naturally belongs to him, just as the slightest shock causes water that has remained liquid below freezing point to solidify.

It's every man's business to see justice done.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.

Oh it's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

Things gained by unjust fraud are never secure