Quotes About Fairness

Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.

An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

I am asking that every American everywhere, in every state, in every zip code have the same opportunities and the same right to live.

The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy.

Once you are wealthy, you are in a nice comfort zone and want to stay there. So I always look in the mirror and ask, is my philanthropy making the world a more just and fair place?

You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.

There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.

Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking, he is not bigoted about it.

It is not the thief who is hanged, but one who was caught stealing.

In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

He will give the devil his due.

You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you'll find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded; at the other, the monument to the man who did it. This is just an example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

All is fair in love and war.

There is no respect of persons with God.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.