Quotes About Fairness

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

An egalitarian society presupposes nonviolence, for violence is the way some are able to deprive others of what is justly theirs. Inequality can only be maintained by violence. The root of violence, moreover, is domination.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.

It could not be denied, however, that he set a high value upon justice, for he sold it at its weight in gold.

There will always be the lucky well and the unlucky sick, but the division should never be determined by privilege—intellectual or otherwise. Among

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

Don't tell me I'm responsible for my thirst when you keep all the water.

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

Remarkably, altruistic punishment is accompanied by increased activity in the "pleasure centers" of the brain. It appears that maintaining the social order and the rules of fairness in this fashion is its own reward. Altruistic punishment could well be the glue that holds societies together. However, our brains are not designed to reward generosity as reliably as they punish meanness. Here again, we find a marked asymmetry between losses and gains.

Highly skilled people are less noisy, and they also show less bias.

A basic rule of fairness, we found, is that the exploitation of market power to impose losses on others is unacceptable. The

A world in which firms compete by offering better products is preferable to one in which the winner is the firm that is best at obfuscation.

fairness concerns are economically significant, a fact we had suspected but did not prove. Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales. People who learned from a new catalog that the merchant was now charging less for a product that they had recently bought at a higher price reduced their future purchases from that supplier by 15%, an average loss of $90 per customer.

Two men, neither of whom had a criminal record, were convicted for cashing counterfeit checks in the amounts of $58.40 and $35.20, respectively. The first man was sentenced to fifteen years, the second to 30 days.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.

We might simply ask about all our encounters with others in our polity, "Would I treat a friend this way?" When we can answer "yes," we are on the way to developing a citizenship that is neither domination nor acquiescence.

Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.

and very carefully to them the truth of what you know, but with kindness in your heart. Have compassion for them, because not everybody starts on an equal playing field. Love, Gloria

If your policy is win at all costs then you are going to hurt people

two wrongs dont make a right

I want justice for Bernie!

Be good, be honest and fair, find something I believe in, work hard and keep the faith no matter how long it takes?