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Quotes About Fairness

Lo, thou, my Love, art fair; Myself have made thee so; Yea, thou art fair indeed, Wherefore thou shalt not need In beauty to despair; For I accept thee so, For fair.
~ William Baldwin
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression
~ William Blake
One Law for the Lion & Ox is Oppression.
~ William Blake
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
~ William Clark
He'll be given everything he's entitled to under the Geneva Convention. We don't want to be accused of doing to him what they did to you.
~ William Craig
Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
~ William Edgar Stafford
Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.
~ William Goldman
Who says life is fair, where is that written?
~ William Goldman
Rights do not pertain to results, but only to chances. They
~ William Graham Sumner
that rights and duties should be in equilibrium. A
~ William Graham Sumner
We disfigure the beautiful face of God's providence, when we fancy him to have a cast of his eye, and care, to one more than another.
~ William Gurnall
Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
~ William Hazlitt
If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
~ William Howard Taft
justice hath no meaning lest it be tempered with mercy."26
~ William Irwin
Haven't you seen that part of me as well? A man's many things. To isolate one part of him and judge him on that alone is to do him an injustice, don't you think?
~ William Kent Krueger
THE WORLD IS HARD. BE STRONG. LOVE IS FOR ONLY A FEW. DON'T EXPECT IT. LIFE ISN'T FAIR. BUT SOME PEOPLE ARE. BE ONE OF THEM.
~ William Kent Krueger
1. The world is hard. Be strong. 2. Love is for only a few. Don't expect it. 3. Life isn't fair. But some people are. Be one of them.
~ William Kent Krueger
That which is not just is not law.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
~ William M. Kucmierowski
All is vanity, nothing is fair.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
The law's not about justice. It's a system we've put in place because we can't have justice.
~ William McIlvanney
You shall not put people to death lazily, because of who they are.' 'We
~ David Boyle
For example, you cannot predict what numbers will come up on a fair (i.e. unbiased) roulette wheel. But if you understand what it is in the wheel's design and operation that makes it fair, then you can explain why predicting the numbers is impossible.
~ David Deutsch