Quotes About Fairness

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased.

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.

We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people that doesn't.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.

Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly.

I'm not greedy. I just want my half.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

There's nothing good, there's nothing moral about taking money from people who earn it.