Quotes About Fairness

Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.

Working for over 12 hours, 30 days a month and being paid after 90 days, and in many cases even more than that, isn't only unethical but is against working laws.

Equalising performance between teams runs completely counter to the idea of F1 and would be very unfair for us.

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

I think that racism is ugly and so unfair, and I believe that we all need one another.

I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader.

I lose my temper at home. I try to control my temper at work. Sometimes, if you are under a lot of pressure, you let off some steam, but I also try not to do that because it's unfair to my wife.

I barely pay attention to awards and nominations, and whether they are fair or unfair.

Theory states that Allah's law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

There's an old-school gatekeeper mentality to some of the RPG community: 'It's unfair that somebody out there can make money on something that I worked so hard to make for free for my friends.'

I actually tried replying to what I thought were some unfair comments on the Internet once or twice, and I never heard back. What seems to happen with some people is they're very much interested in voicing their own opinions, but not in having them challenged.

I think it's unfair to punish players for inherent faults in the game.

No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.

It's very difficult and unfair probably to compare players from different eras, because they were able to reach excellence in their time and they have to be rewarded for that.

If an athlete takes a shortcut - literally, for example, by running a street that shortens the marathon route by a quarter mile - he or she doesn't have an insurmountable advantage. But it's an unfair advantage, and in a field of equally matched athletes, it's more than enough to make a difference.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.

As long as you are winning, everything is fine, and you lose a game, and all hell breaks loose. That is grossly unfair. We should not overlook someone's past achievements just because he is going through a bad patch.

It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair.

Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

It is unfair to say one doctor is better than the other based on a degree, especially because we are all trained together during residency.