Quotes About Fairness

the nature of compromise was that no one was happy. That's how you knew a fair deal had been reached.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Let the punishment match the offense.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

Love's never a fair trade.

A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult.

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy's essential in wartime, but once in place, will it ever be removed?

There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.

I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.

the foundation of justice was impartiality.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

There was something else,--something quite undefinable, that gave a singular glow and radiance to the whole countenance, and suggested the burning of a light through alabaster,--a creeping of some subtle fire through the veins which made the fair body seem the mere reflection of some greater fairness within.

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

Temper justice with mercy.