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Quotes About Fairness

If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.
~ Jack Nicklaus
I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
~ Martin Sheen
Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
~ George Washington
A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.
~ William Cowper
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.
~ William Shakespeare
Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities.
~ Fielding H. Yost
Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?
~ Carol Moseley Braun
Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.
~ Henry Clay
The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.
~ George Washington
The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.
~ Laozi
To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.
~ John Marshall
There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.
~ Philip Sidney
I believe anybody who tells you he is unbiased is a liar. Being human gives you bias, and you can't avoid that. The best you can ever hope to be is fair.
~ David Poole
Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.
~ John Ridley
Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
~ Susan B. Anthony
America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.
~ Shirley Chisholm
But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
~ Debbie Harry
If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.
~ George W. Bush
Justice will prevail!
~ Tsugumi Ohba
Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?
~ Jim Butcher, White Night
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
~ William McIlvanney
The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
It wasn't fair, he thought — Aaron having no family and Tamara having her scary family and now Jasper. Soon, there would be no one left for him to hate without feeling bad about it.
~ Cassandra Clare