Quotes About Fairness

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane.

On 'The Apprentice,' I'm 100 per cent certain I'm paid the same as Claude Littner. I insisted on equality when I negotiated my contract. I would not have allowed anything else.

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

By appeasing the anti-racism lobby and affirming its culture of grievance, public institutions and business leaders are not making Britain a fairer place. In fact they are harming the very people they aspire to help.

A sport has its own built-in integrity - doesn't need an artificial one.

If the rules aren't going to protect the integrity of the game, then they're wrong.

I look forward to demonstrating the greatest integrity of fairness and independence that any arm of the city should have and does have.

Why would the moneyed be granted higher education and an intelligent student be deprived because his father has no money? This is, after all, a democracy.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

A judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law.

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

Oh, Joe, can't producers ever be wrong? I'm a good writer—honest. I thought you were going to play fair.

According to Fuller, laws should be (1) general, (2) publicly promulgated, (3) prospective (i.e., not retroactive), (4) clear, (5) consistent (i.e., not contain any contradictions), (6) practicable (i.e., not demand the impossible), (7) constant over time, and (8) congruent with the actions of officials. If we accept that list as defining the rule of law, America's departures from it will be apparent to readers of this book.

Every one likes justice in another's house,none in his own.

He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

Nor can one take an unfair attitude even towards enemies: "Let the enmity of a people[towards you] not determine you upon an unjust course; be fair, it is closer to taqw?. Quran

But I will not give them a share. Not one. Not for love. Nor for loyalty. Not to be fair. Because capitalism isn't fair. Life isn't fair. The lottery of what genes we are born with isn't fair. The moon and the stars and the gas clouds of Alpha Centauri aren't fair.

Even young children know what you get when you pay peanuts. Monkeys!

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.