Quotes About Fairness

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Report me and my cause aright.

A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!

This even-handed justice.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

No es justo? El destino nunca es justo.

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name…. We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

That is the most basic law of the Universe—cause and effect. If our actions are the result of our intentions to do good, to create harmony, to deal fairly, to love dearly, and to live the life of the superior person, can anything else happen except that, as a result of natural law, we reach the loftiest goals to which one can attain and lead lives of greatest happiness?

As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust.

I don't think it is fair to tell our people to be nonviolent unless someone is out there making the Klan and the Citizens Council and these other groups also be nonviolent.

I fundamentally believe that if you empower people, you can move mountains. I fundamentally believe that if people are given a fair go, the world's a better place, people are happier individually and society progresses.

There isn't much justice in this world. Perhaps that's why its so satisfying to occasionally make some.

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

We are not causing you to "lose your job" by "giving" you an OVI. We didn't give it to you, it was earned.

How you harangue referees. How you fall over when you've not been touched. How you make a meal out of every tackle to try and get the other player booked. How you protest when you have nothing to fucking protest about –