Quotes About Fairness

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Perspective should never influence punishment. Too often in our society, we practice selective perspective. We're willing to see all the angles only when it suits us. When perspective becomes inconvenient, we can be unflinching, even cruel.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Every actor, male or female, is paid what he or she is worth. There is no inflated sum or underpaying in the industry.

I believe that fairness creams protect the skin against the harsh effects of the sun.

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

I never have suspected or sensed a whiff of cheating in any of our Super Bowls.

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

Shouldn't the short man have the right to make a mistake without his motives being considered consciously or unconsciously malicious?

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

All men are at last of a size; and true art is only possible, on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere. Fair play, and an open field, and freshest laurels to all who have won them! But heaven reserves an equal scope for every creature. Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the concave sphere, and beheld his talent also in its last nobility and exaltation.

I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.

As that wise Indian, André Béteille, always points out, what we must strive for is reasonable equality of opportunity, not absolute equality of result. That we have plainly not achieved

Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal.

There's no suspicion from prejudice.

in today's America the proud claim of "justice for all" is being replaced by the more modest claim of "justice for those who can afford it.

La desigualdad es una opción, no algo inevitable.

Cuarto, una sociedad menos dividida, una economía con mayor equidad, funciona mejor.

Lograr una sociedad más justa requiere de igualdad de oportunidades, pero a la vez esta requiere de mayor igualdad de ingresos y riqueza.

markets on their own will fail to achieve shared and sustainable prosperity. Markets play an invaluable role in any well-functioning economy and yet they often fail to produce fair and efficient outcomes, producing too much of some things (pollution) and too little of others (basic research).

The rule of law is supposed to protect the weak against the strong and ensure fair treatment for all.

Those at the top have managed to design a tax system in which they pay less than their fair share—they pay a lower fraction of their income than do those who are much poorer.