Quotes About Fairness

Sports are fundamental for growing in a healthy way: they represent fair competition, strength, and exercise, which enhance the body's healthy balance and strengthen the mind.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

Most of us are referees at heart; we like to call throws and errors on someone else.

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

how unfair not to give him that other chance, that other chance which, he now had no doubt at all, he had always intended to take.

In his anxiety to be just to others he was often prepared to be unjust to himself. He was always ready to sacrifice his own rights rather than run any rish of infringing the rights of others.

Are human beings so much more worthy and better than we are, that they are allowed to take advantage of so many cruel privileges with impunity?

I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and hating getting ripped off.

You know how they leave their things lying around on the floor." Mma Ramotswe, in spite of her commitment to fairness, had to agree. Men were very untidy, for the most part. They could not help it, she knew, and one could not blame them for it, as neither could they help being men. It was just the way things were.

These equalizing mechanisms may derive from simple morality, or they may come from the practical understanding that losers, if they are unable to get out of the game of success to the successful, and if they have no hope of winning, could get frustrated enough to destroy the playing field.

A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them.

We phungus never judge guilt or innocence, we judge evidence. The law isn't emotional, you know, it's cold and impersonal.

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

a decision can be legally correct and still be unjust.

had a test in school and I studied for an entire week, night and day. My friend spent the entire week playing video games and having fun at the beach. I ended up getting an A, and my friend got an F. So what if the teacher said, 'it's not fair that Bren got an A and his friend got an F. So we're going to give you both C's. Still passing, right? So it's no big deal. Still plenty of cushion away from an F. The A earners shouldn't be greedy.

another problem is that many of us are addicted to news itself. And this is a drug that can eat away at rationality and happiness both. No matter how much the news alarms someone with this addiction, or depresses them, or makes them absolutely miserable with the unfairness of the world, or puts them in a state of perpetual rage, they can't help but seek out even more news. And this news stokes even more outrage, and exposes them to even more dire warnings of coming catastrophes.

In an ideal world, what purpose should a government serve?" asked Craft. Then answering his own question he said, "It should protect its people from internal and external dangers. It should help build infrastructure and help society run smoothly. It should police society so commercial interactions are conducted fairly. And it should help provide citizens what they need to excel, the infrastructure and means. And that's about it.

Those who believe Europe is for the world have never explained why this process should be one way: why Europeans going anywhere else in the world is colonialism whereas the rest of the world coming to Europe is just and fair.

People began to talk of "equality," but they did not seem to care about equal rights. They talked of "anti-racism," but they sounded deeply racist. They spoke of "justice," but they seemed to mean "revenge.

Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!

We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency