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Quotes About Fairness

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic, " not blind.
~ Glenn Beck
If life is unfair with everyone, doesn't that make life fair
~ Thabang Gideon Magaola
Could he actually be a decent guy?Hard to imagine.He was pretty to look at, though, she thought. Boys weren't objectified nearly enough, and turnabout is always fair play.
~ Daniel Marks, Velveteen
I never thought it was fair that anatomy decided what my brain was fit for.
~ C.J. Redwine, Defiance
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.
~ Herbert Croly
By giving every child a fair start, we are improving our collective future, including the private sector's ability to find talent in a very competitive global marketplace.
~ Shakira
If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that.
~ Peter Jackson
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not
~ Michael Pollan
If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.
~ Ron Atkinson
The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.
~ Cathy O'Neil
Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.
~ David White
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age.
~ Lord Chesterfield
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
~ George Orwell
If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
~ John Cleese
All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.
~ Steve Martin
Women should earn equal pay for equal work.
~ Barack Obama
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office
~ Gloria Steinem
It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.
~ Margaret Fuller
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
~ Benjamin Harrison
One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.
~ William Shakespeare
I believe in the single standard for men and women.
~ Mae West
It's unfair when we find ourselves loving those who don't care about us while ignoring those who truly care and love us.
~ Terry Mark
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
~ Martha Beck