Quotes About Fairness

No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.

As far as I can work out, no-one really loses out.

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.

All work and no pay makes a housewife.

As a kid, I dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to rescue me. Now, I just dream of equal pay for equal work.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

Work hard, play fair, be kind to all living creatures, and take a moment to just sit back and breathe.

I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.

We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.

Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.

If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.

It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.

Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.