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Quotes About Fairness

You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn't question it.
~ Charles Manson
I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
~ Charles Schumer
I always try to deal justly with everyone," she once said. "But if anyone wants to fight me I'll give him all the fight he wants.
~ Charles Slack
I hope I'm always fair," said Mr. Coningsby, meaning that he couldn't imagine Eternal Justice disagreeing with him
~ Charles Williams
Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!
~ Charlotte M. Yonge
Your ultimatum is simple. It's fair. And it's stating your own intentions, not what you hope theirs will be.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Lakshmi is wealth accumulated through honest and fair means. Money can be stolen as well, but Lakshmi brings peace and happiness to the person who earns it.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Lakshmi is wealth accumulated through honest and fair means. Money can be stolen as well, but Lakshmi brings peace and
~ Chetan Bhagat
Americans may have a hundred flaws, but they are extremely protective of their system. Anyone who tries to break it to come up in life using unfair means is punished severely. Schools
~ Chetan Bhagat
God gives talent so that the ordinary person can become extraordinary. Talent is the only way the poor can become rich. Otherwise, in this world the rich would remain rich and the poor would remain poor. This unfair talent actually creates a balance, helps to make the world fair
~ Chetan Bhagat
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
~ Chief Joseph
I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
~ Chief Joseph
Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they'd stop fighting for it.
~ Author Unknown
There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.
~ Martin A. Sullivan, unverified
But, sir, we are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it... Sir, if you would levy only taxes which in the opinion of everybody, or even of a majority, are not unequal and unjust, you would have such a tax law as I have never yet seen.
~ John Sherman, 1871
Why can we land people on the Moon, machines on Mars and transfer trillions internationally, but can't figure out how to run efficient, accurate and fair elections?
~ Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., 2004
Thought for the day. Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
~ H.Jackson Brown Jr.
When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
I am a man who refuses to be a hypocrite and I like and must be just, fair and honest; women for me are more important than oxygen because they are our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters. Women are our companions, our beloved soul mates and the sisters of men
~ Hal Lindsey
Our judgments always have behind them a quality of righteousness.
~ Hal Stone
Vont er þeirra ránglæti, verra þeirra réttlæti.
~ Halldor Laxness
Fair queen, at home there is none like thee, But over the mountains is Snow-white free, With seven little dwarfs, who are strange to see; A thousand times fairer than thou is she. Queen, thou art not the fairest now; Snow-white over the mountain's brow A thousand times fairer is than thou. Queen, thou art the fairest here, But not when Snow-white is near; Over the mountains still is she, Fairer a thousand times than thee.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
I should like it to be as fair as snow, as rosy as the red blood, and with hair and eyes as black as ebony.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
an eye for an eye
~ Hammurabi