Quotes About Fairness

All victims deserve justice.

We need society, and particularly the victims of crime, to believe justice is being done.

Victims of crime deserve equal constitutional rights - the same rights as defendants. No more, no less.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone.

I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

We don't classify all doctors as incompetent because of the infrequent instances of medical malpractice. We don't use the example of one bad teacher in our children's school to draw a negative conclusion of the entire teaching profession. We should apply that same rational standard when it comes to how we view law enforcement.

If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.

The Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution.

But it's a fact of life that dreadful people usually end up getting far better than they deserve.

Although she didn't possess the robust sunstruck prettiness of her younger sisters, Helen was compelling in her own way, like the cool glow of moonlight. Her skin was very fair, her hair the lightest shade of blond. Kathleen found it interesting that although Lord and Lady Trenear had named all four of their children after figures of Greek mythology, Helen was the only one who had been given the name of a mortal.

Mr. Bayning is not a frog," Poppy protested. "You're right," Beatrix said. "That was very unfair to frogs, who are lovely creatures." As

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

Like you do," I say. "You help people, Chris, and I love that about you. You're helping Mark even though he doesn't deserve it from you." "I've found that in life, the times we need help are often the times we deserve it the least." "Sometimes people like Rebecca deserve it and they never have it.

Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is right, just, and fair. Proverbs 1:3

Hunting after arguments to make good one side of a question, and wholly to neglect and refuse those which favor the other side ... [is] willfully to misguide the understanding; and is so far from giving truth its due value, it wholly debases it.

The objective is to win -- fairly, squarely, decently, by the rules, but to win.

His heart and his brain were utterly foreign to all vindictiveness or personal bitterness. He declared himself hotly and strongly against wrong causes, but never against men.

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch.

Profit at the expense of no one.