Quotes About Fairness

we hold to the belief that the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

I will answer injustice with justice.

Equity is often difficult to judge, and still more difficult to achieve,

A headsman's sword is no fit end for brave Ser Gregor. We have prayed so long for his death, it is only fair that he pray for it as well.

May the Father judge him justly.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Shall I wasting in despairDie because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flow'ry meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?

If accusations fit your prejudices, truth is easily pushed aside.

Once she exclaimed, "But I always thought that sorceresses were evil!" "What do you mean 'evil'?" Lynet has never considered the question. "You know," she said, after a moment, "unfriendly to people." "People!" repeated Morgana derisively. "As if humans were all that mattered. Just once I'd like to see people judged by how friendly they are to sorceresses.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.

There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.