Quotes About Fairness

Sometime you need to give credit to the opposition.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

It's not ideal; I don't want to get a bad decision. If I win the fight, I expect to get my hand raised at the end of it. But, if people see it's a bad decision, it gets sorted out. You get another shot, or you fight someone else at the top level.

I want to be compensated. If I'm working at the post office, and I'm sorting the same mail as the person to the right, and they're making $25 an hour and I'm making $21, I need to know what is this person doing so much better that he's getting $4 more than me. That's just knowing the market and being a smart businessman.

Mob justice is not justice. Justice sought by violence is not justice.

A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.

I just don't see anonymous sources as fair against a candidate. I think if someone has a real concern, they should come out and say it.

One of the main points everywhere in my life is fairness. Coming from South Africa and being treated unfairly all your life because of your skin colour, that's been a huge point.

Love doesn't measure that way... you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.

It is always wrong to enrich yourself at the expense of others.

Why must Justice have a color? Is it the same "REASON" that the sky are "BLUE?

I constantly reminded myself with the fact that the world isn't about what's fair, but how you cope with what is unfair.

God requires two things: 'pure love' and 'true justice'. Everywhere else there is relative justice. Where 'pure love' and 'true justice' exist, there comes the grace of God!

You will never win an unfair competition since the reward is meaningless.

You can't condemn an entire species of people because of the actions of one man.

I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.

Love is like life with or without justice, with or without fairness.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Le discutí un penique a la Vida, y la Vida no me dio más, por mucho que le imploré durante noche cuando contaba mis escasos bienes. Porque la Vida es un amo justo que te da lo que le pides, pero cuando has fijado el precio debes aguantar la tarea. Trabajé por un salario de jornalero sólo para descubrir, perplejo, que cualquier paga que hubiera pedido a la Vida ésta me la hubiese concedido de buen grado.

If a leader is a real leader, he will have no need to advertise that fact except by his conduct-his sympathy, understanding, fairness, and a demonstration that he knows his job.

There is no such thing as SOMETHING FOR NOTHING!