Quotes About Fairness

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

In the 1930s, he came up with an approach he calls "earned and deserved.""I believe, in order to be fair to all students, a teacher must give each individual student the treatment he earns and deserves. The most unfair thing to do is to treat all of them the same.

Coach Wooden's approach succeeded: Setting challenging expectations appropriate to each individual; getting to know each individual well and caring for each as a person; tailoring his instructions and support to individual differences; and treating everyone with respect and fairness. It succeeded for him in the classroom, on the court, and in life.

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

Justice never sleeps.

The fact is, women's rights are human rights. We must fight for everyone to have access to a level playing field.

It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely else–pity or entertainment, or stand-up comedy.

It sometime occurred to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely else--pity or entertainment, or stand-up comedy.

Conservatism is founded on the principle of equality of opportunity, not result.

Men as righteous as we could not be judged harshly.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

The view of how America speaks is reflected in our laws. And one of the laws is fair housing. It very clearly prohibits discrimination in the sale and rental of housing in America. It's been a sad fact of American life that the practice in many communities has been quite the opposite.

I don't want to be treated outside the rule of law. And I don't want people from this part of the world, specifically North Africa and the Middle East, to be seen as underhumans, as people who are not deserving of human rights and being subjected to the rule of law, what I call open season. I don't want that anymore.

We want to have a game which is honest, which is dynamic, a nice spectacle so we should try to do everything to help that process.

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.

I think I've earned a reputation of being fair and that I'll hear all sides from the entire political spectrum.

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

You cannot take shortcuts. We've shown that we can spend more on ingredients, not less, and charge a fair price.