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Quotes About Fairness

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
~ Laurence J. Peter
If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
~ Margaret Deland
There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.
~ Mitch Albom
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
~ Odell Shepard
Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
~ Ulpian
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
~ Victoria Woodhull
People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.
~ Will Rogers
So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
~ William Shakespeare
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
~ Sallust
An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.
~ W. C. Fields
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
~ William Shakespeare
The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.
~ Confucius
I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.
~ Edward Kennedy
Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.
~ Flip Wilson
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
~ Lillian Hellman
No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
~ Madeline Miller
Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
~ Mitch Albom
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr