Quotes About Fairness

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.

Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.

There was in his nature a tendency to display a taste for fairness and justice—not the "fairness and justice" that politicians are forever carrying on about, but fairness and justice in the true, original sense of the words. As a consequence, the people of Mishima regarded him as a troublemaker and kept their distance.

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

Minorities deserve the same rights, as do majorities.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is—Never look for justice, but never cease to give

So, on the whole, it was well with them, very well; and Patrasche, meeting on the highway or in the public streets the many dogs who toiled from daybreak into nightfall, paid only with blows and curses, and loosened from the shafts with a kick to starve and freeze as best they might — Patrasche in his heart was very grateful to his fate, and thought it the fairest and the kindliest the world could hold.

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

Por cada segundo que pasa sin que aspiremos a democratizar los lugares donde se decide lo importante, aumenta sin cesar el enriquecimiento privado ilegítimo y el sufrimiento gratuito de la gente corriente.

All's fair in love and war — and coffee.

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring — quite often the hard way.

Miss Althea?" "I don't blame you, Jesse," she said at last, taking control of her whirling emotions. "I must have…I must have led you astray somehow. But you must never touch me again." Jesse's disappointment was palpable. "Never?" That seemed impossible. To be allowed to know how wonderful it was to feel and smell and taste her and then to never be allowed that again. It was so unfair. Jesse wanted to cry. It was too unfair.

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

Experiments show that even three-year-olds have the intuition that rewards should be proportional to contributions, in places as different as Japanese cities and the camps of Turkana nomads in Kenya. Obviously, it does happen that people take more than their share-but that is universally considered exploitative, and people are eager to avoid or shun individuals who do that.

I don't get mad, I get even.

By the time a person was my age, they should know that life isn't fair and quit pretending that it ought to be.