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Quotes About Fairness

Not everyone in this world has the same start in life. From that standpoint, we are trying to give as many kids as we can equal opportunities to succeed.
~ Goran Dragic
Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
~ Chris Hayes
Nobody stands above the law.
~ Ehud Olmert
I have always tried to play the right way, and I honestly believe for the most part the etiquette in snooker is very good. So when there are breaches, and there are, it stands out.
~ Neil Robertson
If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.
~ Serena Williams
Every man may think his own cause just till it be heard and judged.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives
~ Vikas Swarup
Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.
~ Charles James Fox
But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.
~ H. L. Mencken
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.
~ Pope Leo XIII
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
~ Thomas Aquinas
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.
~ Norman Lamm
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
~ Oscar Wilde
If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
~ Heraclitus
All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.
~ Josef Pieper
Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.
~ Stanley Baldwin
Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?
~ Victoria Woodhull
I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.
~ Bayley
The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.
~ Confucius
When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.
~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore
We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.
~ Bear Bryant
No one Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man.
~ Stephen Spender
Law never made men a whit more just.
~ Henry David Thoreau