Quotes About Fairness

Maybe sometimes vengeance is just as good as justice," he said. "They're pretty much the same if you ask me.

justice is incidental to law and order.

play fair, Haller." "It's not a fair game. Did she tell you

it was the hardest damn thing I ever did in my life. I don't care how many feathers a man wears in his hair, he's still a man. One of them, Red Legs, looked at me and said 'do you think this is fair? Would you sign such a paper?' and I could not meet his eyes. It made me sick.

Free trade is meaningless unless there is also fair trade.

But free trade is meaningless unless there is also fair trade.

First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

The mere fact that a group of people in the past agreed to a constitution is not enough to make that constitution just.

The meritocratic ideal is not a remedy for inequality; it is a justification of inequality.

Justice is not only about the right way to distribute things. It is also about the right way to value things.

The passage of time allowed for him and everyone else to see that the blame that had been assigned to an individual was more fairly bestowed on a situation.

Even the fairest coin, however, given the limitations of its memory and moral sense, cannot be as fair as the gambler expects it to be," they wrote. In an academic journal that line counted as a splendid

If everyone on Wall Street abided by the rule's spirit, the rule would have established a new fairness in the U.S. stock market.

When he noticed that pro basketball stars were far less likely to be called for traveling than lesser players, he didn't just holler at the refs. He stopped watching basketball altogether; the injustice of it killed his interest in the sport.

The big banks and the exchanges have a clear responsibility to protect investors—to handle investor stock market orders in the best possible way, and to create a fair marketplace. They've been paid to compromise investors' interests, while pretending to guard those interests. I was surprised more people weren't angry with them.

In the words of President Lyndon Johnson when he signed the 1965 immigration reform act: "This is a simple test, and it is a fair test. Those who can contribute most to this country—to its growth, to its strength, to its spirit—will be the first that are admitted to this land."21

I think I have always had a strong sense of justice, of fair play, of what is right and what is wrong.

There are those destroyed by unfairness and those who are not.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.

The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

I've played my cricket very sincerely and honestly, that's the approach my team takes, and we expect that from Australia as well.

Who says I haggled for money? If directors like Yash Chopra promised me an amount for singing 'Tujhe dekha to yeh jana sanam' but back-tracked once the song was a huge hit, am I to blame for asking what was due to me?

I don't happen to believe, by the way, that immigration policies that single people out because of religion, for instance, are fair and just.