Quotes About Fairness

How can people be punished when they are innocent?

I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.

Seeing persistence as the key to success is also democratic. If hanging in there is what's required, then all the other characteristics and advantages one person might have over another—education, class, privilege—are taken off the table.

A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

Children who receive good enough parenting easily recognize and protect themselves from bullying and exploitive people because they do not have to become accustomed to being treated unfairly.

The job for the newsman, as we see it, is simply to cover all the news as fairly and as completely as possible. Our concern is not what effect a given piece of news will have on the public. Our concern is to get the news before the public, in the belief that a free public must be an informed public. The only cause for which a correspondent must fight is to tell the truth and the whole truth.

Ninguna pelea tiene sentido, Justin. Si uno se ve abocado a una pelea, lo mejor que puede hacer es concluirla. Lo del "juego limpio" es asunto del contrario.

Those who do not accept due process, who refuse to acknowledge the democratic mandate, are a cancer on society.

We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?

The world is a dangerous place (...) There will always be blurred boundaries. There are plenty of good bad guys and bad good guys. Life's not clear and it's seldom fair (...) I don't want our child growing up under the illusion that it is. Shit happens.

I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share for the men who went with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. They may take their portion.”

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit.

You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits.

You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:

If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.

You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.

You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

Each inheritance is to be divided by lot among the larger and smaller tribes.”

And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.