Quotes About Fairness

Now, if basketball had a designated foul-?shot shooter, maybe I'd consider. The other team fouls you, you get to pay them back. Boom. But that's not the way it works, in basketball or in life.

That's not fair! That's a cry that rings out over the years on every school playground, because if there's one thing every child seems to be born knowing, it's that life is supposed to be fair. And, if there's one lesson he learns sooner or later, it's that it's not.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

it was important to him that i know who she was, so im glad for that. but it makes me sad too. they loved each other so much, and now she's gone. it doesn't seem fair.

Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)

Nothing in life is fair except a witnessed duel.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

We all have a responsibility to create a just society

Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. - Drizzt Do'Urden

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.

That equality is a good thing, a fine goal, may be generally accepted. What is lacking is a sense of the monstrosity of inequality .

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.