Quotes About Fairness

I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.

Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.

It is not justice when you beat someone after tying their hands, but award a clean chit to another who openly confesses his crimes.

I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few.

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

How dreadful! cried Lord Harry. I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

One should never take sides in anything, Mr. Kelvil. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

Sweet rains fall on just and unjust alike

Life is never fair, Robert. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.

Why should there be one law for men, and another for women?

Wenn ein Mann alt genug ist, um unrecht zu tun, so sollte er alt genug sein, um recht zu tun.

One should always play fairly... when one has the winning cards.

Znios? brutaln? si??, ale brutalny rozs?dek jest absolutnie nie do zniesienia. Pos?ugiwanie si? nim jest nie fair. To cios poni?ej intelektu

Peace without justice and equal opportunity is no Peace.

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

Darkness makes any woman fair.

It serves to keep the records straight, and is a convenience to the public to whom one wants to do the square thing - affording as it does a bird's eye view of the position of affairs to those of his readers who, through no fault of their own, are not birds.

for the faults of the many, judge not the whole. Everything on earth is of mixed character, like a mingling of sand and sugar. Be like the wise ant which seizes only the sugar, and leaves the sand untouched.

A convicted thief was sentenced to have his hand cut off. A liar lost his tongue. Repeated offenders were killed. Banishment was also a common sentence. In spite of these severe laws, songs praised Sundiata for his fairness in dealings with the privileged as well as the poor, the strong as well as the weak.

Did the world always mete out just deserts?