Quotes About Fairness

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright – that of equality.

It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker?

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

Let each man have according to his deserts.

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.

Government is the human attempt to mandate goodness and ensure fairness. Yet there is only one place where goodness is born, and that is in the human heart. There is only one place where fairness can be conceptualized, and that is in the human mind. There is only one place where love can be experienced truly, and that is in the human soul.

Father, help me never to place judgment upon another and then only upon the merit therein.

Justice is an action, not a reaction.

Like in Animal Farm, which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others?

All the things you've been trying to get from these relationships—freedom, understanding, fairness, acceptance—are exactly the things that you never got from your mom. So every time you load all that unfinished business onto your partner, you're setting yourself up for another disappointment. Because as an adult, the only person who can give you those things is you.

All the things you've been trying to get from these relationships—freedom, understanding, fairness, acceptance—are exactly the things that you never got from your mom.