Quotes About Fairness

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

I think our criminal justice system has two problems. We have systematic problems and we have people problems. So if the hearts of people are not about justice than any system you have won't work.

The people who come to work deserve to be paid properly, and there's no excuse. I could understand someone making a small error, but sometimes people make systematic errors, and that's not right.

women are judged differently and it's not fair.

One of the most puzzling aspects of love is its lack of justice. It's unfair. Love can elude people who seem to deserve it while it's heaped on those who appear to ignore it, run from it, or slough it off as too restrictive.

It's very hard to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And no matter where you run into it, prejudice obscures the truth.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil!

I do not like dogs that assume you're guilty until you prove you're innocent. I like democratic dogs.

Amigo mío, lo hecho está bien hecho; y mejor andaría el mundo si, en casos dados, no fuesen leguleyos trapisondistas y demás cuervos de Temis, sino duendes, los que administrasen justicia. Y con esto, buenas noches y que Dios y Santa María nos tengan en su santa guarda y nos libren de duendes y remordimientos.

The gods don't deserve any special deference solely because they're powerful. If they can judge us based on our actions, we should be treating them according to their own.

When you feed hungry people, you are showing mercy. The search for justice begins when you ask why the hungry are hungry.

as he tried to punch him in the back. "Hey! No fair!" said the manager. Columbus and

Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things." The reader who gleefully joins in the condemnation of the unrighteous is "without excuse" (anapologtos) before God (2:1), just as those who refuse to acknowledge God are anapologtos

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

Respect is about how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

Be just before you're generous.

One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.

Contraception was an issue of women's freedom for Keynes, who also recommended in 1925 that women's pay must be regulated to ensure fairness. It took over forty years for Keynes's pioneering views to be met by legislation: male homosexuality was partially decriminalized and contraception made available to all women under the Sexual Offences and Family Planning Acts of 1967; the injustice of women's low earnings was first addressed in the Equal Pay Act of 1970.73