Quotes About Fairness

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal.

I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.

While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself...

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill.

I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.

If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.