Quotes About Fairness

righteousness - the moral justification to act with cruelty.

Broadcast operated under the FCC's fairness doctrine, whose core requirements were that broadcasters cover matters of public importance and that they do so fairly, mostly in the sense that they air competing positions.

The 1987 FCC decision to stop enforcing the fairness doctrine supercharged conservative media into a billion-dollar industry.

Personally I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we're not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule? - Kinsey Millhone

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine

Victory belongs to a man who can conquer the cunningness of war, of deceit and fairness.

When you apologize to your children, you are teaching them to trust their feelings and perceptions. You are saying, "The things I did that you thought were unfair were unfair. You were right to feel that way.

Being a good man has nothing to do with how many touchdowns you score. But maybe, rather, how you play the game.

Roosevelt spoke eloquently, in his penetrating tenor, of those 'who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life . . . I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished,' he told the audience, '. . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

It isn't fair, but maybe that's the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.

Although she knew her mom was right about kids getting different treatment for doing the same thing

The first to speak in court sounds right—until the cross-examination begins" (Proverbs 18:17).

Well-spoken white people from prominent families came out on top in our broken court system. It wasn't fair, but it was true.

All of us are born how we are born and suffer how we suffer and if even God can't make us equal who are we to think our laws can?

All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.

Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel.

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

I argue that relationships of dominance and subordination are incompatible with justice, which must be based on principles of trust and fairness that are found only in relationships of mutuality.

Lawyers are always asking me if I will cut some slack for their clients. My standard answer is this is not Let's Make A Deal.

Das Recht ist kein Kreißsaal für die Gerechtigkeit und hat niemals behauptet, einer zu sein. Das Recht besteht aus Gesetzen, Gesetze bestehen aus Wörtern, und Wörter können manches sein, sicher aber nicht gerecht.

Nach dem demokratischen Verständnis muss der Maßstab jeder Aburteilung abstrakt sein. Das folgt aus dem Verbot von Einzelfallgesetzen. [...] Wozu sollte das Abstrakte uns dienen, wenn nicht als Maßstab für Aburteilungen?

Es [gibt] vielleicht pragmatische Urteile, nicht aber pragmatische Gerechtigkeit.

Kennst du das Gefühl, wenn man plötzlich feststellt, dass es völlig hirnrissig ist, etwas für andere Menschen zu tun, weil man selbst ein Mensch ist und deshalb weiß, wie wenig sie es verdienen?