Quotes About Fairness

what is the best advice one could give a husband and wife getting divorced who want to know how to reach a fair and mutually satisfactory agreement without ending up in a bitter fight?

How else do people find happiness except in fulfilling their duty? There can be no happiness without fairness, she said. Remember that, Om - don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

There can be no happiness without fairness

Justice is always ready to lend you a spare brain in order to condemn you without a second thought

His subordinates remembered him as tough but fair-minded. Years later, one of them retained Hamilton as a lawyer, even though he had become a vocal political enemy. When Hamilton questioned the wisdom of this, the ex-soldier replied, "I served in your company during the war and I know you will do me justice in spite of my rudeness.

some thought she should have received much less.

Grant proved remarkably fair-minded, declaring that "should there be any grounds of suspicion of fraudulent counting on either side it should be reported and denounced at once . . . Either party can afford to be disappointed in the result but the Country cannot afford to have the result tainted by the suspicion of illegal or false returns.

We don't teach them to fight fair, and we don't start a fight.

Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do.

Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do.

But these activities—whining about what's fair, begging forgiveness, hoping for a miracle—these demand energy, and that was gone from me. Contentment on the other hand demands little, and I drew more and more into its circle.

The fact that we assess information in a biased manner and are unaware we are doing so can be a real stumbling block in negotiations, even if both sides sincerely seek a fair settlement.

It seems it's always the innocent who pay the highest price for injustice. It's seemed that way all my life.

Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Live a balanced life—learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

Sentence first; verdict afterwards. -Queen of Hearts

Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

Judge not, lest ye be judged.

it's unsportsmanlike to engage in a battle of wits with anyone who is obviously unarmed.

The principle of relativity should be applied with due discretion in the field of jurisprudence and governmental administration.

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.