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Quotes About Fairness

No man or corporation has a right to employ any man without giving him the equivalent of his labor.
~ baring gould sabine vi
I love to love, but I know not jealousy. If you find another fairer than I, I shall weary of you and go love him -- So beware, if you would hold me!
~ barker elsa iv
Fairness is an illusion. Neither effort nor intention holds title to the nature or form of either the present or the future. And if the sincere effort has no title, what interest can the bellow or the lamentation hold?" - Davigde. "The humans on Amadeen have a different way of saying it... Tough shit." - Yazi Ro
~ Barry B. Longyear
the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.
~ Barry Hughart
I have decided that the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.
~ Barry Hughart
You can't treat me any differently. You can't do that." I mean to sound insistent and confident, but pleading has crept into my voice. I'm begging, not demanding. "It's not fair to treat me differently. You were the only person in this town who didn't know. I didn't have to tell you.
~ Barry Lyga
It is not right that any one should be advocate and judge in the same case.
~ Bartholomew of San Concordio
I want to be part of real reality shows, but don't want to do shows where I am told to give more points to one candidate because he/she is from a particular state. We have to judge by merit.
~ Kumar Sanu
As far as 'Khatron Ke Khiladi' is concerned, I think it's one of the most fairest TV reality shows.
~ Hina Khan
Fairness is what justice really is.
~ Potter Stewart
Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.
~ Shirley Chisholm
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
~ H. G. Wells
That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.
~ Charles E. Wilson
The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
~ John Lewis
When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.
~ John Caudwell
After all, clemency is by nature outside the rule of law. When conferred upon those already convicted of crimes, it unravels the decision of citizen-jurors who found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
~ Asha Rangappa
I think the notion of tax fairness is the reasonable thing to do.
~ Phil Murphy
Good laws are fair, do not discriminate against any group and are reasonably implementable.
~ Rohini Nilekani
When I was with the Giants, I played for Dusty Baker, and I love Dusty to death. I think he's a great manager and great person, but he platooned me. His reasoning was to get everybody in the lineup. It wasn't that I couldn't play every day.
~ Dave Martinez
It's simply not bias for a judge to explain her reasoning in a dissent.
~ George T. Conway III
I don't think that golf has a place for two sets of rules. I think one of the reasons that the game has progressed in the way that it has over the years is the fact that the amateurs and the pros all play the same game, and they play under the same set of rules.
~ Arnold Palmer
We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.
~ Satya Nadella
Being taken down a few pegs is humbling. Knowing that life is not easy or fair is humbling. Receiving a great honor - well, that would be called an honor.
~ Meghan Daum
It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona.
~ Sonia Sotomayor