Quotes About Fairness

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living.

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living.

The best you get is an even break.

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

The croupier at the roulette table does not claim that he knows something about the order in which the numbers will come up. He just sees to it that the bets are properly paid off and that the house isn't gypped - which is a job requiring competence.

entitled to: to be treated fairly and with civility and to be spoken to like a human being.

Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must certainly pay for all they get.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.

ogni tirannia diventa davvero insopportabile solo nella misura in cui è solidamente fondata. Niente al mondo, infatti, l'uomo sopporta con più difficoltà di una giustizia implacabile

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Life is not fair in that way or any other way. We are who and what we are.

The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

Is anything fair?" He smiled. "Death is. He treats us all the same.

I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone who is particularly deserving.

Those who care exclusively about "identities" aim to place everybody on the same starting line but do not care that some come to the starting line with Ferraris and others with bicycles.

Generosity is not a free pass for people to take advantage of us, treat us unfairly, or be purposefully disrespectful and mean.

Generosity is not a free pass for people to take advantage of us, treat us unfairly, or be purposefully disrespectful and mean. What I realized is that a generous assumption without boundaries is another recipe for resentment, misunderstanding, and judgement.

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,--and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.