Quotes About Fairness

he's imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales. He's forgotten that Justice incarnate is not only balancing the scales but also blindfolded.

Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

I don't hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Nothing is so unequal as equality.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.

Law and justice are not always the same.