Quotes About Fairness

Obviously, if this were Donald trump or Bill Gates accused of a crime, that would be grossly inadequate, but you cannot set a bond that a person could not possibly come up with.

If inanimate objects are left to stand in their world, and are not invited out to mingle with our sense of self, they will quietly console and delight us. But to bind possessions up closely with the mind is less than fair to both.

Well as, one judge said to the other, "Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary."

Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.

My view, is let Mike Dukakis go around there and talk about pink slips, despair, pessimism in the United States. I'll be the guy out there talking about hope and opportunity and challenge, and the fact that the United States is the best, the fairest, the most decent nation on the face of the earth. Let them apologize for America, and let me lead her to new greatness.

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

For Justice, though she's painted blind, Is to the weaker side inclin'd.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.

She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about to be dead, I didn't know, but the idea completely grossed me out. "In the womb I heard you die, for no one lives when a banshee cries." I wasn't just going to die. I was going to be rhymed to death. That simply wasn't fair.

The most that can fairly be demanded is that the number of individual observations shall be as high as possible. If this number, statistically considered, falls within the limits of chance expectation, then it has been statistically proved that it was a question of chance; but no explanation has thereby been furnished. There has merely been an exception to the rule.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous.

The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.

I wasn't an ever-knowing adult; I was just expected to act like one. And, yeah. a real nice family tree I had. Murder and mayhem on every gnarled branch. Hardly seemed fair.

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.

many believe that to treat people equally is the fairest way of working. To treat people who are different equally may be the unfairest thing of all.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

Almost everyone will be nice to almost everyone, using money taken from a few.

Are you going to let me go?" Jack asked quietly. "I'm thinking about it." "So Gaston gets let go but I don't?" "I like him more than I like you.