Quotes About Fairness

the measure of society is how it treats the weakest members

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by "society".

Various mental tests or scholastic tests have been criticized as unfair because different groups perform very differently on such tests. But one reply to critics summarized the issue succinctly: "The tests are not unfair. Life is unfair and the tests measure the results.

Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.

Justice at all costs' is not justice.

The essence of bigotry is denying others the same rights you claim for yourself. Green bigots are a classic example.

Who, after all, is in favor of unfairness? Similarly with "social justice," "equality," and other undefined terms that can mean wholly different things to different individuals and groups—all of whom can be mobilized in support of policies that use such appealing words.

Access is one of the great dishonest words of our times. I have had as much access to a career in professional basketball as Michael Jordan had. He just happened to play the game a lot better. Indeed, practically everybody has played the game a lot better than I did.

The presumption of equal outcomes in the absence of malign actions can lead to incorrect— and disastrous— conclusions in other circumstances.

Indeed, the premise of their work is that they can't win in a fair and open debate.

Equality is what happens when the people who decide how to cut the cake (senators, for example) can't rig the division to favor themselves.

Existe a vingança e existe a justiça. Às vezes as duas são uma só.

They always ended up with one person doing all of the conceding and the other getting off scot-free.

Death was democratic. It made no choice between the rich and the poor, the beautiful and the ugly, the young and the old.

It is unconscionable that we ration health care by the ability to pay.... your heart breaks. Health care should be a given.

For seven men she gave her life. For one good man she was his wife. Beneath the ice by Snow White Falls, there lies the fairest of them all.

The rules are simple!

if you're hell-bent on lookin' for fairness, you're on the wrong damn planet.

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people...that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.

If we have a hair trigger on the exclusion gun, shouldn't it be aimed at those who are using their power to abuse someone who is in a weaker, more vulnerable position?

We have to be thoughtful about the burdens we insist that other people carry, especially when we don't have to carry those same burdens ourselves.