Quotes About Fairness

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

but let us judge not that we be not judged.

There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Aqueles que negam liberdade aos outros não merecem para si mesmos.

Chúng ta không nên k?t án ng??i khác ?? chính mình không b? k?t án.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

To secure to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

once awakened, a sense of justice is something not easily contained. It often crosses the boundaries of race, class, and gender.

There was nothing inherently wrong with colonialism, he felt, if its administration was fair and just. He

When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression.

When all you've ever known is privilege, equality feels like oppression.

Nadie ha visto nunca a un perro hacer un intercambio justo y deliberado de un hueso por otro con otro perro. Nadie ha visto a un animal que, con gestos y sonidos naturales, indique a otro: esto es mío y esto es tuyo; estoy dispuesto a darte esto a cambio de eso

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.

Society may subsist, though not in the most comfortable state, without beneficence; but the prevalence of injustice must utterly destroy it.

Deuxième maxime. - La taxe ou portion d'impôt que chaque individu est tenu de payer doit être certaine, et non arbitraire.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.

For many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Better no rule than cruel rule.

Mucha gente hay que hace un bien sólo si de él recoge beneficio, no por amor y respeto a lo que es justo.

No plea will protect the innocent from the unjust judge.