Quotes About Fairness

Well, shoot, I don't believe in double standards, where men can get away with things that women can't. In God's eyes, there's no double standard.

I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

You must not judge too quickly, he said quietly. Each man deserves to be judged against the canvas of his time and his country.

He defended them because he believed that every social interest should have its chance.

Friends always break even.

You will earn the respect of the others by doing your job without grumbling. No it's-not-fair's. No I-don't-belong-here's. But don't go overboard the other way, either. You don't want to wake up every morning singing "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.

I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all, added little Amy, with an injured sniff.

It isn't fair that I should have the hardest work, and never any amusement. Men are very selfish, even the best of them.

If you had been up early and done a little every morning there would be no hurry now. I told you that, Rob and you never minded. I cannot have the lessons neglected as the work has been. The squirrels will get more than their share this year and they deserve it, for they worked best.

I never yield to injustice if I can help it, ...

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all

If only Rockefeller had played fair, Emery insisted, he would have ended up the more powerful oilman.

For Rockefeller, it was dogma that prices should reflect true market values, not the buyer's ability to pay, and nothing upset him more than the notion that a rich man should pay a premium on his hard-earned wealth.

Rockefeller would become their official umpire and try to govern their pool in a fair, disinterested fashion.

While he had thought the Landis fine excessive, he had thought the trial itself fair.

Throughout my life, I guess there's been one thing that's troubled me more than any other: the abuse of people and the theft of their democratic rights, whether by a totalitarian government, an employer, or anyone else. I probably got it from my father; Jack never bristled more than when he thought working people were being exploited.

It is true that I opposed quotas in employment, education, and other areas. I consider quotas, whether they favor blacks or whites, men or women, to be a new form of discrimination as bad as the old ones.

In any real democracy, magistracy isn't a benefit—it's a burdensome responsibility that can't fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another

Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.

His school had been so committed to establishing equality that the staff told a pupil he or she had done well only if they could tell every other member of the class the same thing.

A little bird whispers in my ear: Be fair! Nobody, no country, has a monopoly of untruth.

invidious comparisons of this kind is to stand convicted of bigotry.

I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.

The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.