Quotes About Fairness

Never ask anyone to do anything for you that you wouldn't do for him or her if the circumstances were reversed. There is a

One may not condemn a man for succeeding because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away from a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

The future leader in industry, to endure, must regard himself as a quasi-public official whose duty it is to manage his trust in such a way that it will work hardship on no individual, or group of individuals.

it is about the distortions of symmetry and reciprocity in life: if you have the rewards, you must also get some of the risks— not let others pay the price of your mistakes. If you inflict risk onto others and they are harmed, you need to pay some price for it.

law: innocent until proven guilty as opposed to guilty until proven innocent

True equality is equality in probability. and Skin in the game prevents systems from rotting.

2. No socialization of losses and privatization of gains.

you may be committing an injustice to others by favoring him.

with huge disparities between efforts and rewards—a few can take a large share of the pie, leaving others out entirely at no fault of their own.

Just as you should treat others in the way you'd like to be treated, you would like to share the responsibility for events without unfairness and inequity.

If your anger decreases with time, you did injustice; if it increases, you suffered injustice.

The healthier our self-esteem, the more inclined we are to treat others with respect, benevolence, goodwill, and fairness—since we do not tend to perceive them as a threat, and since self-respect is the foundation of respect for others.

Societatea are un caracter despotic; e în stare s? refuze cuiva cea mai elementar? dreptate cât timp este cerut? cu prea mare îndârjire, ca un drept; dar aproape la fel de des acord? mai mult decât dreptate - aÈ™a cum le place despoÈ›ilor - când se face apel la generozitatea ei.

El público es caprichoso; es capaz de negar la justicia común cuando se le exige violentamente como un derecho, lo es también de conceder más allá de lo justo cuando el requerimiento se verifica como a los déspotas les gusta, entregándose por completo al amo.

they were called scythes rather than reapers, because they were not the ones who killed; they were merely the tool that society used to bring fair-handed death to the world.

If not me, who? Will the scythe who replaces me be as compassionate and fair? I can accept a world without me in it . . . but I can't bear the thought of other scythes gleaning in my absence.

Sometimes justice needs obstructing when it ain't just.

Ancak eÅŸit olduÄŸunu kan?tlayan kiÅŸi eÅŸittir bir baÅŸkas?na, özgürlüÄŸü ancak onu kazanan hak eder.

the gods play no favorites.

A whore is a woman who takes more than she gives. A man who takes more than he gives is called a businessman.

and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself.

justice is everywhere and it's working

On the one hand, forcing other people to clean up our mess violates basic notions of fairness. On the other hand, actually preventing climate-change problems would require societies today to make investments, some of them costly, to benefit people in the faraway future. It's like asking teenagers to save for their grandchildren's retirement. Or, maybe, for somebody else's grandchildren. Not many would do it.

Justice, he thought, has many faces, but they don't always include mercy.