Quotes About Fairness

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

Oh! she was good as she was fair. None-none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are, To know her was to love her.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.

At the same time, it wasn't exactly fair that, once again, David had the world handed to him on a silver platter. People like David didn't have to make their own luck. It was fair to bet that no one was going to offer Stevie a free ride to school in England, and she'd solved a murder.

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naive and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles.

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naïve and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles. To see Uncle Sam going back on his word, revoking people's private lives, revoking their freedom…

The fact is that fairness is a human concept. The rest of the universe knows nothing of it.

In what circumstances do you struggle to trust God's purposes? Do you feel that God is fair in asking for a pure response like Paul's? Why or why not? What keeps you from fully believing that God is a good Father who cares for every detail of your life? Take the time to bring these obstacles before the Lord and pray, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24).

God does not play favorites.

Adopt the motto—It doesn't matter who's right, but what's right.

it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing.

If I'm living a little better now, it's because I treats everybody right.

You cannot be consistently fair or just or kind or generous or loving without courage. It is time for you to decide privately, secretly, in your own place inside yourselves, what you will do. You have to come to peace with a peaceful heart.

Very little in life if fair, Susannah

We're all trapped. I'm as trapped as they are. The more Ben thought about it, the more he knew it was true. He hadn't chosen to be born a prince and become a king, just as they hadn't chosen who their parents were. They were prisoners for a crime they themselves had not committed. That was the greater crime, wasn't it? It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living in a fairy tale someone else wrote.

Why us? How did we luck into this life? How is that fair? To be born into a life without a choice in the matter, without the freedom to be anyone else?

Love cannot exist without the dimension of justice.