Quotes About Fairness

If a leader comes to office in a seemingly fair election and tolerates dissent, he or she qualifies for our seal of approval.

My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

If you're a top 10 guy you should pay a top 10 guy or even a top 5 guy what he deserves, whether it's a lightweight or a heavyweight.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'

When I become president, it will be about helping the 100 percent.

I was always a little hesitant to accuse people of loading a bat to hit a ball farther. I was always very hesitant to approach people because I never had any evidence that I had firsthand knowledge of.

Our higher education admissions process is neither fair nor effective.

Liberals also see many social programs as functioning to promote fairness (Category 1). They see certain people and groups of people as "disadvantaged.

when a company (say, General Motors) or a city or state says to its employees that it cannot "afford" to pay pensions, they are engaging in theft and the thieves should be prosecuted

Therefore, any social or political system in which people get things they don't earn, or are rewarded for lack of self-discipline or for immoral behavior, is simply an immoral system.

How kind you are, North Wind!' 'I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it.

as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding.

You are right. Curdie is much farther on than Lootie, and you will see what will come of it. But in the meantime you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' 'What is that, grandmother?' 'To understand other people.' 'Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

The man who takes no count of what is fair, friendly, pure, unselfish, lovely, gracious,—where is his claim to call Jesus his master? where his claim to Christianity? What saves his claim from being merest mockery?

She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

Todos los animales son iguales, pero algunos son más iguales que otros.

All saints should be judged guilty until proven innocent.

The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don't mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought to be that when they are on serious subjects. I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters as long as you can score a neat debating point.

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Where there is equality there can be sanity.

Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali degli altri. (All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others).

All animals are equal.