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Quotes About Fairness

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues
~ Jim Hightower
And maybe now you'll start treating everybody with respect. Not just the people you think are important.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
~ Samuel Johnson
I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
~ Cesar Chavez
The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Integrity, respect, compassion, and fairness become obstacles to people who think winning is everything
~ Michael Josephson
While the law cannot force a person to be moral or tolerant, through the law we can demand respect and expect equality.
~ Donna Brazile
As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.
~ Martin McGuinness
I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.
~ Yingluck Shinawatra
I saw Jews raising Torah scrolls, which contain the injunction to remember that we were strangers in Egypt and so we must treat the stranger fairly, dancing in the streets emptied of their Palestinian neighbors. The insistence on empathy with the stranger appears with greater frequency in the Torah than any other verse—including commandments to observe the Sabbath and keep kosher.
~ Yossi Klein Halevi
The twin commitments to truth and compassion result also in a commitment to equality.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The idea of equality is inextricably intertwined with the idea of creation. The
~ Yuval Noah Harari
People are egalitarian by nature, and unequal societies can never function well due to resentment and dissatisfaction.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical.
~ zafon carlos ruiz v
Self-absorbed people experience a lot of disappointment and anger, and they often have a hair trigger when it comes to accusing God or anyone else who doesn't meet their demands. We often hear them say, "That's not fair!
~ Zig Ziglar
I support making sure that there are legal protects for everyone.
~ Debbie Stabenow
The judges' primary objective was to conduct a scrupulously fair legal proceeding that would win the respect of the world. Hausner's goal was to tell the story of the Holocaust in all its detail, and in so doing, to capture the imagination not just of Israel's youth and world Jewry, but of the entire world . -- The Eichmann Trial, page 121
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
Providing adequate representation even for defendants who appear guilty is the best way to protect those who are not.
~ Deborah L Rhode
Be a peacemaker in every situation. Resist partiality or respect of persons.
~ Deborah Smith Pegues
The white man knows how to make everything," he said, "but he does not know how to distribute it.
~ Dee Brown
Love doesn't need to be equal or be fair it only needs to be real!
~ dejay- Dai An an
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
~ Denis Waitley
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
~ Denis Waitley