Quotes About Fairness

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.

Two wrongs can never make a right.

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

There can be no such thing as justice unless there are freedom and equal conditions; there can be no such thing as equality unless there is freedom.

Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, not from its opponents, but from those who themselves are Christians. That method of procedure would be the only fair method in the case of any movement. [...] Men have abundant opportunity today to learn what can be said against Christianity, and it is only fair that they should also learn something about the thing that is being attacked.

So when it came to a female of worth like Ehlena, he was always going to be on the far side of the glass, nose pressed up hard, palms spread with need, never getting close enough to tough. It was only fair to her.

Justice doesn't hide behind anonymity. It doesn't operate without rules of conduct.

Do you think any of us go anywhere until we have the truth? Do you think there's peace without justice?" "No, I don't," Eve admitted, knowing it would always drive her.

It seemed only fair.

Dog accepts punish as something fair... No other animal will accept the punish just because it follows it's instinct.

Sin embargo, y regreso a mi primera pregunta, ¿acaso es bueno que el imperio de la ley no conceda excepciones? Si la ley se aplica sin excepciones, ¿qué lugar queda para la compasión?

the degree of someone's just punishment is not a function of how long it took to commit the deed; rather, it's a function of how severe the deed itself was.

Females, after all, were not just the fairer sex, but the fairly reasonable one. Which was the only reason the race had survived this long.

Joe gibilerin her ÅŸeyi berbat etmesine izin verilemezdi. Peki neydi bu her ÅŸey? Bu, bir yaÅŸam biçimiydi, denizde sürdürülen bir yaÅŸam biçimi; eÅŸitlikti, payla??md?, birliktelikti, ortak huzurdu... Kötülük edenin icab?na hemen bak?ld???, adil insanlar?n duracaklar? yeri bildikleri, kaya gibi saÄŸlam bir kardeÅŸlikti muhakkak.

All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer.

What is not good enough for you is not good enough for other men, and there's no more to be said.

I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

I'm interested in two things. I'm interested in truth and I'm interested in fairness.