Quotes About Fairness

Por acaso a vida distribuía apenas os quinhões merecidos?

most people will react favorably to your proposals if they feel that you admire them for being honest, unselfish, and fair.

One of his favourite quotations was 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.

You will never get into trouble by admitting that you may be wrong. That will stop all argument and inspire your opponent to be just as fair and open and broad-minded as you are. It will make him want to admit that he, too, may be wrong.

So why is credit stolen far more often than shared?

You have won, but you haven't won fairly.

In and effort to be fair, an umpire will sometimes cheat.

Meanwhile, Kassad and Moneta and the Shrike could kill all of them without the Ousters realizing that they were under attack. It was not fair, Kassad realized. It was wrong. It was the ultimate violation of the New Bushido, worse in its way than the wanton murder of civilians. The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

"Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent,"

Greed is good until it affects someone's Need…

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

"Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken."

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Any abundance, in any amount, is illusory if it does not safeguard its producers.

it cannot be allowable for the government, on the pleading of some of the people, to establish a right solely for the purpose of withholding it from some other people. If this were to happen, it would amount to a punishment imposed on a disfavored group for no crime except their existence. I don't need to point out that this has happened before.

Often I have not known where I was going until I was already there. I have had my share of desires and goals, but my life has come to me or I have gone to it mainly by way of mistakes and surprises. Often I have received better than I have deserved. Often my fairest hopes have rested on bad mistakes. I am an ignorant pilgrim, crossing a dark valley. And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.

There is no good reason for the government to treat homosexuals as a special category of persons.

Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this off with the head attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?

Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into vengenance than justice.