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Quotes About Fairness

It doesn't matter if I've been wronged - I still have a responsibility to use my influence in a way that never causes harm.
~ Shaun King
Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.
~ Sadiq Khan
Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.
~ Kevin Gates
It's not fair that people wrote that all of my films had not done well. There were a few films like 'Nippu,' 'Devudu Chesina Manushulu' and 'Sarostaru' which were really bad. But, 'Veera' and 'Dharuvu' had done well. Strangely, people have added them to my 'flop list.'
~ Ravi Teja
How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts?
~ Tom Perez
Yeah definitely, I have to be brave. There are some bad tackles that we don't like. But it's not my job to look at that, it's the referee's job, he has to see what is going on. All I try to do is keep going.
~ Adama Traore
Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
~ Barack Obama
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
~ Anton Chekhov
To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.
~ Richard Lamm
The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.
~ Nick Clegg
Well, I think I'm trying to be in the middle of two traditions, the French tradition, which is about being fair and staying close to reality, and the American tradition which is about making up a stylized universe, made of shapes and colors.
~ Celine Sciamma
You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.
~ Danny K. Davis
There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line of tragedies that now powerfully remind us of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between law enforcement, our criminal justice system, and the public our laws are supposed to protect.
~ Kristen Soltis Anderson
I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, 'This isn't fair.' I said, 'Life isn't fair.' Everybody has their issues. It's how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.
~ Maria Shriver
After acknowledging that most law enforcement personnel are fair-minded and do a difficult job, it only takes one exception to create a terrible tragedy.
~ Bernice King
Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
~ Armstrong Williams
A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
~ Meister Eckhart
Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they get more. But then you look at the people who are at the top, and you realize they're not the people who have transformed our economy, our society.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
With the removal of questions about gayness and transgender status in the Census, we really stand to lose a lot of the progress that has been made, and certainly not to make further progress. In order to have a fair system, you need a system you can measure.
~ Andrew Solomon
In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Our financial markets work best when they are competitive, fair, and transparent.
~ Kenneth C. Griffin
With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.
~ David Blunkett
Reasonable regulations are essential to protect consumers from harmful practices and ensure that consumer financial markets operate in a fair, transparent, competitive manner.
~ Richard Cordray