Quotes About Fairness

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

This really isn't fair," Mena said. "What is 'fair'?" asked one of the watchers called Devoth. "I don't know this word.

no matter how much we want to believe that our world is just and fair, it isn't. At least in some cases, the only way to have justice is to leave fairness at the door on the way in.

Well, nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbor chooses. Nevertheless, it is not fair.

I am Jurgen. And I deal fairly with all women, and raise my staff against none save in the way of kindness.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

You quit treating people like animals and maybe I'll consider it.

We have already found a high degree of personal liberty, and we are now struggling to enhance equality of opportunity. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.

Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?

You don't ask of Justice; it asks of you." -Danny Rollings

I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn.

If you have to hang a man you could have put on a better trail, you aren't entitled to own a rope.

Never let the law interfere with justice.

Fair's fair. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a candy for a candy, a penny for your thoughts.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

The fact that there is so much immoral behavior is not evidence of the weakness of the moral senses. The problem of wrong action arises because of the conflict among the several moral senses that exist, because of the struggle between morality and self-interest, and because of the corrosive effect of those forces that blunt the moral senses. We must often choose between duty and sympathy or between fairness and loyalty.

To Lincoln's mind, the fundamental test of a democracy was its capacity to "elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all.

Until we address unequal history, we cannot overcome unequal opportunity." Until blacks "stand on level and equal ground," we cannot rest. It must be our goal "to assure that all Americans play by the same rules and all Americans play against the same odds.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

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If one is sensible, if one is reasonable, if one never allows oneself a base thought or an envious emotion, naturally one says: Let's make a foursome!

I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it. -Detective Thanet.

Ye cannae fix injustice-with more of it.

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.