Quotes About Fairness

There can be no mercy without truth.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

You cant have justice unless you have truth.

If there is no truth, there is no injustice.

There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.

The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.

In the land of the seeing, the blindfolded lady justice is Queen.

In the land of the seeing, blind Lady Justice is Queen.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

If you are not willing to give a less experienced qualified professional a chance, don't complain you are charged double for a job worth half.

If you tell me the truth, the truth I'll proclaim.If you tell me a lie, you'll be fair game.

F.O.I. protects the guilty, but not the innocent!

Judge not lest ye be judged yourself.

You can't judge the many by the actions of the few.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

But when Bosch opened the files as part of his cold-case review, he took a different approach. He had always operated according to the axiom that everybody counts in this world or nobody counts. This belief dictated that he must give each case and each victim his best effort.

Freeman was a damn good prosecutor but in my view she didn't play fair. A trial was supposed to be a spirited contesting of facts and evidence. Both sides with equal footing in the law and the rules of the game. But using the rules to hide or withhold facts and evidence was the routine with Freeman. She liked a tiled game. She didn't carry the light. She didn't even see the light.

It was during my explanation to my young daughter that I finally realized why I had been drawn to this particular practice of law. Yes, some of my clients were just gaming the system. They were charlatans no better than the banks they were taking on. But some of mu clients were downtrodden and disadvantaged. They were true underdogs in society and I wanted to stand for them and keep them in their homes for as long as I possibly could.

that everybody counted or nobody counted

I wanted to tell him that the judge was being insensitive and probably racist.

He taught Bosch early on that in society all victims are not created equal, but to the true detective they must be.