Quotes About Fairness

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

I think if I tried to be the stern parent, we would have slipped into Cinderella mode - with me as the evil stepmother!

Whether you're earning income because you have money sitting in the bank or a stock account somewhere, you should be taxed on that income fairly and the same.

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

If you ask me if I got hit in Game 7 because they stole signs, I don't think so. The Astros have great players who don't have to do that. So I think that whether or not they stole signs, the results wouldn't have changed.

Whenever you play the game, you just want the game to be on the up and up. You don't want to ever lose a game because you felt like it was stolen from you.

Injustice can never be stood for.

In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.

When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.

My judicial philosophy is straightforward.

If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

This guy's testimony is awesome. I hate my testimony. I wish I was addicted to heroin. But no. I had to grow up in a somewhat functional family situation. It's just not fair. Why can't I be a crack addict who robbed Fort Knox using nothing but a can of hairspray and a plastic ice cream scoop? Thanks a lot, God.

Any excuse to throw a rider out of a race is OK by me, but not that kind of inborn lack of athletic skill. That's not what racing is about.

The majority have no right to do wrong.

Don't confuse fairness with justice. Justice is about doing what is right. Fairness means everyone gets exactly the same thing.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have."—John Rawls

Ignore the unfairness—there is no fair. Play the hand that you're dealt to the best of your ability. People are highly consistent, so you will eventually get what you deserve and so will they. In the end, everyone gets the same judgment: death.

Martin Luther King, Jr., famously remarked that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." Learning is similar—

Martin Luther King, Jr., famously remarked that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." Learning

Much needs to be done to fix the gerrymandered system so that each citizen has one equal vote, and so that each vote can be simply counted by a fellow citizen.

The man who judges two equally brutal oppressors to be different, merely because they wear different faces, does not deserve freedom from oppression".–Pablo Sanchez, The Winter of Nations, 1851