Quotes About Fairness

parity is the higher form of charity.

It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

Es ist besser, wenn zehn Schuldige davonkommen, als dass ein Unschuldiger verfolgt wird.‹«

William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Commentaries on the Laws of England

The way we treat certain people in public should sqaure with the way we talk about them in private There should not be double standard.

To all those women -- strong enough to be heroes; fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you.

An eye for an eye" won't work because all it does is double the number of eyeless people.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain.

The triumph of justice is the only peace.

These tests imply an even more fundamental lesson that runs through this book: the difference between how a person treats the powerless versus the powerful is as good a measure of human character as I know.

a twenty-year study that tracked six thousand British civil servants found that when their bosses criticized them unfairly, didn't listen to their problems, and rarely praised them, employees suffered more angina, heart attacks, and deaths from heart disease. You get the idea. It doesn't matter whether the assholes around you are getting ahead or (more likely) screwing up their lives, careers, and companies. They pose a danger to you and others.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, east a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

One important aspect of justice, Jose Miranda reminds us, involves the restoration of what has been stolen. Giving food to the hungry or clothing to the naked is not a charitable handout but an exercise in simple justice - restoring to the poor what is rightfully theirs, what has been taken from them unjustly.

Find a broker who has your best interests at heart. Many brokers will spend the time educating you, and they could be the best asset you find. Just be fair, and most of them will be fair to you. If all you can think about is cutting their commissions, then why should they want to help you? It's just simple logic.

Wherever there are children, there will always be injustice.