Quotes About Fairness

Be just, I would always recommend to the men in power. Be just whatever happens, because, if you cannot govern with justice, even with injustice you would not govern for long.

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action. ~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Without justice, courage is weak.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Who am I to judge? Who are you to pass verdicts? Who puts us on the bench? Have we heard all the evidence, or the hundredth part of it? Is there any possibility of us doing so? Are we not all equally in the dock? There is something tragically comic about the spectacle of one human being judging another.

When people are decent, things work out for everybody," my father instructs us. "That's been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it, too.… If you can work a thing out so that everybody profits, that's the ideal business.

Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it too. If somebody's getting hurt, it's bad, but if you can work a thing out so that everybody profits that's the ideal business.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

At Manchester City, the women are not second-class citizens in any regard. We are treated exactly the same way - it's a level playing field.

To criticize the attorney general for permitting justice to be done without regard to political party is very disturbing.

Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.

The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.

Regardless of what race, what color, what sex, what nationality, what sexual orientation - regardless of who you are, equality should always rule! Whatever is right for you is right. Period.

I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it.

The rule of law, and the idea that it applies to everyone regardless of what office that person might hold, is the chief ingredient in our democracy.