Quotes About Fairness

Bütün hayvanlar eÅŸittir ama baz?lar? daha eÅŸittir.

No case is really answered until it has had a fair hearing

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

All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.

I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters so long as you can score a neat debating point.

Yanl?? adam? asmak, hiç adam asmamaktan iyidir.

It is a strange thing, he thought, to be an old god. They worship you, and yet they mistreat you. If you do not want to do what they wish, they make you. It is not fair.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away from a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability. But why, demanded the King, should not all the people learn how to accumulate gold and therefore become themselves rich and prosperous?

but I wish my labors to be fairly rewarded.

The King was thoughtful for some time. Then he asked, Why should so few men be able to acquire all the gold? Because they know how, replied the Chancellor. One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away from a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

And that, against this: the king-types who would snatch the apple from your hand and claim to have grown it, even though what they had, had come to them intact, or been gained unfairly (the nature of that unfairness perhaps being just that they had been born stronger, more clever, more energetic than others), and who, having seized the apple, would eat it so proudly, they seemed to think that not only had they grown it, but had invented the very idea of fruit, too

If there is fud, it shud be fud for all, rite?

Not fair to light a spark of hope, to see a grim mouth smile?

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together and make our voices heard.

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

We require Canadians who are collecting EI benefits to prove they are looking for work. It's only fair that we require employers looking to benefit from the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to prove they really need it.

There is no earthly reason why Walmart and McDonald's and Walgreens and these other giant, profitable institutions should have one worker in need of public assistance. It's ridiculous.

One thing I am not is a dirty player. And I hang my hat on being a hard worker. I am a respected man in this league, and I hope that people look at that and know me as who I am, and I would never go that far, trying to hurt somebody.

One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.

Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits.

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.

All workers want is a fair shake.