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Quotes About Fairness

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
~ Homer
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.
~ James Madison
He who is less than just is less than man.
~ John Howard Griffin
No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.
~ John Peter Altgeld
Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.
~ Khalil Gibran
A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.
~ Laurence J. Peter
An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.
~ Frank Miller
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
~ Plato
An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.
~ Hesiod
An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is a sin to judge any man by his post
~ Saint Augustine
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.
~ Sophocles
All men are created equal.
~ Thomas Jefferson
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.
~ Aeschylus
A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.
~ Aesop
I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.
~ Albert Einstein
All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.
~ Andy Rooney
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
~ Bainbridge Colby
Any game where a man 60 can beat a man 30 ain't no game.
~ Burt Shotton