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Quotes About Fairness

She is all that is gracious, Her spirit is comely, The work of her hands is fair.
~ Ellen Kushner
Everything that life unfolds or offers is transient. That is to say, it lasts only for a short time. So, if life is fair to you, do appreciate God and then, enjoy, celebrate and share life's fairness positively and cheerfully. But, if life is unfair to you never worry. For, tough times never last. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Give anybody his/her due i.e. be fair/kind to whoever you come across. For, he/she could be your last resort subsequently.
~ Emeasoba George
We can treat our children fairly, for example, but if our hearts are warring toward them while we're doing it, they won't think they're being treated fairly at all. In fact, they'll respond to us as if they weren't being treated fairly.
~ Emery Reves
It should be observed, too, in fairness to the unroyal species of Cabinet government, that it is exempt from one of the greatest and most characteristic defects of the royal species. Where there is no Court there can be no evil influence from a Court.
~ bagehot walter xviii
Peace cannot exist in that society where their is no justice, equality and obedience of law.
~ Bahram Baloch
Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.
~ Baldassare Castiglione
Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
~ ballou hosea ii
Misery begets equality.
~ Balzac Honore De
I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
~ Barack Obama
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250 000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
~ Barack Obama
Westerners are fond of the saying 'Life isn't fair.' Then, they end in snide triumphant: 'So get used to it!' What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child's budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, 'Life isn't fair,' and her response will be: 'Then make it fair!
~ Barbara Alice Mann
Westerners are fond of the saying 'Life isn't fair.' Then, they end in snide triumph: 'So get used to it!' What a cruel, sadistic notion to revel in! What a terrible, patriarchal response to a child's budding sense of ethics. Announce to an Iroquois, 'Life isn't fair,' and her response will be: 'Then make it fair!
~ Barbara Alice Mann
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
~ Barbara Boxer
We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
~ Barbara Boxer
When someone works for less pay than she can live on -- when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently -- than she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made of a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.
~ Barbara Jordan
We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
~ Barbara Levy Boxer
Antifeminists are incapable of making a distinction between being critically opposed to sexual oppression and simply hating men. Women's desire for fairness and safety in our lives does not necessitate hating men. Trying to educate and inform men about how their feet are planted on our necks doesn't translate into hatred either.
~ Barbara Smith
I have a lot to contribute and the company needs to compensate me appropriately or I'll go elsewhere,
~ Barbara Stanny (now Huson)
But with that burst of the fairness that he can never repress, he admits that conversion is unlikely as long as Christians exclude Jews from the community: "There must be first conversing with them before there can be converting them.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
is more unfair," as an English historian has well said, "than to judge men of the past by the ideas of the present. Whatever may be said of morality, political wisdom is certainly ambulatory.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Nothing is more unfair," as an English historian has well said, "than to judge men of the past by the ideas of the present. Whatever may be said of morality, political wisdom is certainly ambulatory.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Justice cannot be exerted in a vacuum where there is neither good nor evil, right nor wrong.
~ baring gould sabine iv