Quotes About Fairness

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding financially because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away for a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

It never seemed fair that just when you're old enough to do anything you want, you can't. You have to start working, so there's no time. And if there is time, you're not working, so there's no money.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs.

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

I give everyone a chance to prove themselves before I dismiss them.

In Oakeshott's view, ideas like natural law, fundamental values, basic rights, and "justice as fairness" are detrimental to the rule of law: "more often than not they are the occasion of profitless dispute, and when invoked as the conditions of the obligation to observe the conditions prescribed by lex they positively pervert the association: they are the recipe for anarchy" (OH 16o).

Una tale uguaglianza in cui scompaiono le differenze favorisce nascostamente la disuguaglianza.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.

No man is above the law and no man below it.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country, is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.