Quotes About Fairness

But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.

But before they got what was coming to them, they got to be the fairest in all the land.

We don't need to be good, but let's try to be fair.

than to be mad at the people who deserve it.

I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.

An artist should be as impartial as God.

Anyway, weren't women allowed to be sexist for the next two thousand years or so, until they'd evened up the score?

did not,' said Stan. 'I never said he lied. I told him it was an unfortunate reality of the game. I told him he would sometimes face kids who made bad calls and that he shouldn't focus on his opponent but on his own game.

You shouldn't only be nice to nice people.

You don't want lottery wins for your enemies, but you don't want tragedies for them either. Then they got the upper hand.

Anyway, weren't women allowed to be sexist for the next thousand years or so, until they'd evened up the score?

Women should not be allowed on juries where the accused is a stud.

This is so classic. Government comes along under the guise of fairness, fixes something, gonna make it fair, gonna make it equal, gonna make it affordable, maybe even make it free. What they end up doing is blowing it all to hell, screwing it up worse than it's ever been screwed up, then their voters bellyache and complain about it. And the same Democrats come back and demand that something be done, because their voters need a second chance.

Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about [every] issue.... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up.

Make No Distinctions

You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.

It has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

I don't want to be unjustly accused of dealing illiberally or unfairly with an adversary, either in court, or in a political canvass, or anywhere else. I would despise myself if I supposed myself ready to deal less liberally with an adversary than I was willing to be treated myself.

One must meet in the middle of the village green for all to attest to one's lack of guile or conceal it absolutely.

Justice Ginsburg objected that the context was in fact crucially different. She said that while termination and failure to hire or promote are public acts, easily ascertained, employees of most private companies have no way of knowing what their fellow workers are being paid.

Not revenge. Justice. And not just for us and our parents, but for the whole world.

Like it doesn't cater to the rich and abandon the poor

I don't think the world works on merit.

Someone had to insert a note of peevishness into this hellishly halcyon Keep Calm and Carry On. Generating some reputable resentment, giving voice to the free-floating outrage that imbued their environs like smoke from a burnt dinner - it was a job to do, as Avery's tireless goodwill was a job. With corresponding self-sacrifice, he'd taken on the less glamorous task of reminding the rest that this sucked, it all sucked, it wasn't fair!