Quotes About Fairness

As John Howard Yoder has said, "If in society we believe in the rights of employees, then the church should be the first employer to deal with workers fairly. If in the wider society we call for the overcoming of racism or sexism or materialism, then the church should be the place where that possibility first becomes real.

The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.

The world is cruel enough without our compounding it;

I desire you as deeply as I ever have, but I understand that the fervor of a desire is irrelevant to its justice.

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The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of evreyone, and withich, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

My client may deserve serious punishment, but first prove that is the case. And remember at all times that he is a human being, which means he must be treated with minimum standards of decency, because doing so redeems not only him but you.

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. (Matt. 7:1–2 NIV)

Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. -Blackberry picking

SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

God somehow makes sure that in international rugby nobody wins ALL the time!

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

I don't like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having a good time, they're excited and enjoying the process, then I think it's wrong to discriminate.

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

For a long time, there has been lingering doubt among many Americans about integrity and fairness of elections. And it's not a new issue at all. If you look at polling data, it goes back decades.