Quotes About Fairness

Just remember, my dear, not to judge so harshly. There are two sides to every story.

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when women acquire critical skills and start weighing their options, they soon wise up to the fact that they're not getting enough recompense for their labors.

Be just to everyone and don't look for an honour greater than this!

Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!

Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe!

There is no justice here; there is no justice there; there is no justice anywhere!

There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs!

Yesterday, we needed justice; today, we need justice; tomorrow, we will need justice! Justice is our eternal need!

Tizrah split each fig and gave one half to me while she bit into the other half. She explained that every fig tastes different from the next, even if they grew on the same tree. "Meshulam told me it isn't nice if someone gets a good fig and someone else gets a rotten one, so you have to split every fig between the people eating them.

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

He who divides and shares is left with the best share.

If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.

In the long run, all wrongs are righted, every minus is equalized with a plus, the columns are totaled and the totals are found correct. But that's in the long run. We must live in the short run and matters are often unjust there. The compensating for us of the universe makes all the accounts come out even, but they grind down the good as well as the wicked in the process.

one need not be religious at all to believe that we should be willing to give what we seek: charitable interpretations of behavior and a willingness to offer just appraisals of conduct with an eye toward fairness.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

Meritocracy is based on the absolute destruction of the rigged race of life, via the introduction of 100% inheritance tax, i.e. an overwhelming advantage can no longer be passed on by rich parents to their children. All children, no matter the wealth of their parents, must begin at the same starting line as everyone else. No parent can rig the race. The 1% can no longer dictate the outcome of the race

The three times rule is: let's direct and correct the child each time he is too impulsive, but don't punish him until the third time. The exception to this rule is, of course, if he is being violent or dangerous. When people punish boys for their first impulse rather than guiding them into a three times format, they are generally penalizing males unfairly for utilizing MEI to learn who to be and who to become.

The secret of life is sincerity and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Ungenerous to the losers and oppressive to the winners, merit becomes a tyrant.

But beyond fairness and productivity, the liberal argument also gestured toward a third, more potent ideal implicit in the case for markets: Enabling people to compete solely on the basis of effort and talent would bring market outcomes into alignment with merit. In a society where opportunities were truly equal, markets would give people their just deserts.