Quotes About Fairness

She viewed her advocacy not as a crusade for abstract principles but as a fight for justice for individual men and women disadvantaged by laws that discriminated on the basis of sex.

Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality.

In the 70's, there was a profound fear of being gay, to be sure, but with the burgeoning understanding of sexism and misogyny, it became harder to understand why one would want to sleep with the enemy, either. For some, lesbian love was a pragmatic route to fairness. (The sex and foot massages were just a bonus.)

The law is a fine thing, even when it's wrong.

Everyone deserves justice, I thought. Even people who lie. And everyone lies. Especially on social media, where there were lies of commission and lies of omission on everyone's page, woven into everyone's public presence.

if you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all, punish not at all:

All these attempts to impose order and fairness on a naturally random and unfair universe endorse the borderline's futile struggle to choose only black or white, right or wrong, good or bad. But the world is neither intrinsically fair nor exact; it is composed of subtleties that require less simplistic approaches. A healthy civilization can accept the uncomfortable ambiguities. Attempts to eradicate or ignore uncertainty tend only to encourage a borderline society.

the world is neither intrinsically fair nor exact; it is composed of subtleties that require less simplistic approaches.

But, though I crave for work, I still like to be fair.  I do not ask for more than my proper share.

W]hen a man is much above the average size and strength, we cut one of his legs or arms off, so as to make things more equal; we lop him down a bit, as it were. Nature, you see, is somewhat behind the times; but we do what we can to put her straight.

For its own sake, a civilized community could no more disregard equity than it dare tolerate an imperfect drainage system.

We never ought to allow our instincts of justice to degenerate into mere vindictiveness.

expedience could not take precedence over the pursuit of justice.

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.

What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

If you really want to end income inequality, I've got the way to fix it. People who don't work shouldn't get any income.

I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

The hen that lays the most eggs deserves the most food.