Quotes About Fairness

Grace, however, is not about fairness.

En nuestro interior existe una especie de juicio instintivo, según el cual la vida debería ser justa, y de alguna manera, Dios debería estar «haciendo mejor su trabajo" de gobernar este mundo.

that God dispenses gifts, not wages. None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirements for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell.

None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirements for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell.

it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.

Vengeance is a passion to get even. It is a hot desire to give back as much pain as someone gave you. . . . The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes.

Forgiveness may be unfair—it is, by definition—but at least it provides a way to halt the juggernaut of retribution.

By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out.

La giustizia è un robot senza cuore nè intelligenza: colpisce a seconda della carica che ha avuto. E la carica è costituita dalle prove.

L'économie est également une invention noble quand elle a pour mission de réguler les liens et les nécessités entre les êtres humains et d'instaurer un ordre équitable à la satisfaction de chacun. Observée d'une façon plus objective, ce que nous appelons économie repose sur l'avidité et l'insatiabilité humaine avec un «toujours plus» stimulé par la publicité.

Yo declaro que la justicia no es otra cosa que la conveniencia del más fuerte.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

He could not harm me, for I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.

So I spoke the truth when I said that neither I nor you nor any other man would rather do injustice than suffer it: for it is worse.

A measure of such things which in any degree falls short of the whole truth is not fair measure; for nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, although persons are too apt to be contented and think that they need search no further.

May not 'the wolf,' as the proverb says, 'claim a hearing'?

justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger.

For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakeable.

But whether the just have a better and happier life than the unjust is a further question which we also proposed to consider.

Justice is useful when money is useless.

when equality is given to unequal things, the resultant will be unequal...

whenever there are any taxes, the one who's just pays more tax on an equal amount of property, the other less, and whenever [343E] there are allotments, the former gains nothing, the latter a lot.