Quotes About Fairness

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an education, and the best education. The money should be distributed equally to all.

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly.

Policymakers cannot take the situation lightly, for at its worst, it speaks to "intergenerational inequity" – a breaking of the social contract between two generations.

We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.

Some people make enough, some people don't, and it has nothing to do with their paycheck.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn

You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!