Quotes About Fairness

Was I thinking that everything would turn out all right in the long run? That it was the fair thing to happen, that it was due me? That things could go wrong only to a point? Some atheist with such beliefs!

Justice and fairness aren't just part of the social studies curriculum, you know. They're the building blocks of our entire society.

But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.

learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave.

And I learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave.

If this is their idea of making things even, they're working with the wrong set of scales.

To expect the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person, my new friend, is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.

To expect the world to treat you fairly because you're a good person, my friend, is like expecting a bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.

Qasim Ali said that night, his bark-coloured eyes softening on the two young men, 'because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.' I knew those words by heart. I

because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied

Think of egg and spoon. If there is an egg, well, fine. You eat. Unless you use your spoon to hold the egg out of my reach. Does being in possession of a spoon give you more right to the egg?

The social safety net was created by a united society in the aftermath of the Second World War. It came out of a British sense of fairness.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.

If the NBA is worried about the NBA, if the NCAA is worried about the NCAA, if each individual institution is just worried about themselves, and the last thing we think about is these kids, then we're going to make wrong decisions. There are a lot of players of different levels, of different abilities. Let's be fair with them.

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.

I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.

The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Every celebrity case I've been involved in - I've been involved in a great many - the one thing you can be sure of is they don't get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it's never the same.

The reality is, punishing people by using a sentencing enhancement that was clearly intended to punish people who had been doing something far worse is, by definition, a miscarriage of justice.

I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.