Quotes About Fairness

I don't care if my opponents are cheating or not.

We have to respect the opponents.

We respect all our opponents.

It's kind of almost not fair that certain people don't get the opportunities that others get just because of where they are born or where they were brought up.

I think that everybody should have the same opportunities.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.

Obviously the policies put forward by the IOC and other organizations are evolving and perhaps they may change after I have competed. But I would ask people to keep an open mind and perhaps look to the fact that I didn't win, as evidence that any advantage I may hold is not as great as they may think.

I remember my father, when I was a kid, retiring me on 50. He never used to let me bat past 50. He'd say I had to retire to give the other kids an opportunity.

I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.

I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

It is not right that in 2019 the lives of too many of our people are still subject to a postcode lottery.

If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice.

There's no such thing as overpaid.

Life isn't always fair . . . but it's sure fairer than death!

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

The first duty of society is justice. ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1757–1804)

Worlds without awareness soon end in all fairness.

A contract," Katri went on earnestly. "A contract is really much more remarkable than you might think. It doesn't just bind. I've noticed that for some people it's a relief to live with a contract. It frees them from indecision and confusion, they no longer have to choose. Both sides have agreed to share and assume responsibilities. It is, or ought to be, a deliberate promise where people have at least tried to be fair.