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Quotes About Fairness

No puede andar escuchando las historias con que le viene cualquiera ni hacer de juez universal. No puede dedicarse a castigar, ni siquiera con su actitud, o retirando la amistad, a quien tal vez haya hecho algo malo en alguna ocasión. No acabaríamos
~ Javier Marías
Few beings in the galaxy ever get what they truly deserve.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
They believe that all beings, regardless of species or gender, are created equal. Surely you can understand that." It was more a statement than a question, but Des answered anyway. "But all beings aren't really equal, are they? I mean, some are smarter, or stronger Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or better at cards.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
nothing" the unjust man complained "is just" ("or un-" the just rejoined.
~ E.E. Cummings
The twenty-first century is a key century for us on this planet. Either we make a world, where all seven billion people have a fair chance in this century - or forget it. If we can't do this, I don't think we are going to make it as a species. Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the world than despair. Hatred and separation and building walls is not the way to progress. Going backward is not the way to go forward.
~ Eddie Izzard
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
~ Edith Wharton
Those who attempt to level, never equalize.
~ Edmund Burke
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
~ Edmund Burke
In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.
~ Edmund Burke
Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.
~ Edmund Burke
We are not made at once to pity the oppressor and the oppressed.
~ Edmund Burke
The most important extra-curricular lesson we learned,—and we learned it properly,—was summed up in Chief Justice Jay's dictum that "justice is always the same, whether it be due from one man to a million, or from a million to one man." We learned this, not by precept, but by example, which is the best way to learn such lessons. In
~ Albert Jay Nock
Povero Renzo! – rispose il frate, - se il potente che vuol commettere l'ingiustizia fosse sempre obbligato a dir le sue ragioni, le cose non aderebbero come vanno.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
perché le guerre fatte senza una ragione sarebbero ingiuste)
~ Alessandro Manzoni
I am a trader. I earn what I get in trade for what I produce. I ask for nothing more or nothing less than what I earn. That is justice.
~ Alex Ayres
The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.
~ Alexander Alekhine
I think the first duty of society is justice.
~ Alexander Hamilton
No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.
~ Alexander Hamilton
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.
~ Alexander Hamilton
spare neither sex nor age, nor high nor low, nor sacred nor profane;
~ Alexander Hamilton
there is very little connection between law and justice.
~ Alexander Masters
Favours to none, to all she smiles extends;   Oft she rejects, but never once offends.
~ Alexander Pope