Quotes About Fairness

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish.

En la justicia se fundan los imperios.

Who had decided that some should have so little and others so much?

Law is organized Justice. Now

In fact, it is not justice which has an existence of its own, it is injustice. The one results from the absence of the other.

monopoly, like every other system of injustice, carries in itself its own punishment.

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

Equality is the soul of liberty there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person's true character.

There are those who have made their fortunes on other people's misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.

Bad men, like good men, are entitled to be tried and sentenced in accordance with law, and when it is shown to us that a person is serving an illegal sentence our obligation is to direct that proper steps be taken to correct the wrong done, without regard to the character of a particular defendant.

Equity thus depending, essentially, upon the particular circumstances of each individual case, there can be no established rules and fixed precepts of equity laid down, without destroying it's very essence.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Justice without strength is helpless, strength without justice is tyrannical…. Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

I had to begin by clarifying in my own mind what a good exit consisted of. For most people, I'd found, there were four elements:         1) Owners felt that they'd been treated fairly during the exit process and appropriately

It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.

This points to a central tension in our very idea and practice of democracy – it is not a simple appeal to the rule of the majority. It is also about respecting that the power of the people is limited by what's fair to minorities, what's reasonable, and by what's legal and constitutional.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

Every once in a while, tempers would flare, but we figured out how to settle those disputes as well—after all, there was no referee to decide the outcome. You would stand up for yourself on some occasions if you had to. One way or another, every kid who laces up a pair of skates in a shinny game learns that backing down almost never helps. But it also doesn't take long to figure out that if you play by the spirit of the rules, there is usually not much trouble.

Call me old-fashioned, but when I was growing up, and especially playing sports, we learned that you don't throw someone under the bus. Mind you, I have no problem sharing the truth when it comes to a particular topic or event, as you are about to see. But telling the truth and piling on are two different things entirely.

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.