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Quotes About Fair

Angélica Navarro Llanos, "Climate Debt: The Basis of a Fair and Effective Solution to Climate Change," presentation to Technical Briefing on Historical Responsibility, Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Bonn, Germany, June 4, 2009.
~ Naomi Klein
It is precisely because the dream of economic equality is so popular, and so difficult to defeat in a fair fight, that the shock doctrine was embraced in the first place.
~ Naomi Klein
There was no need to forbid the presence of the fair sex in the rooms because there wasn't a single woman in all Barcelona who would have agreed to enter that miserable hole, even under pain of death.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced.
~ Cecelia Ahern
We've all had meetings with the referees. We're all clear with how VAR works, and ultimately, you want the rules to be fair.
~ Steph Houghton
Professional fights between men and women send the message that violence between men and women is appropriate. In most homes, that's not a fair fight, which is why I'm against intergender boxing.
~ Thomas Hauser
It's always Canelo, and it's Mexican Independence Day, so I know that. But I am the champion, and just looking back on that, that is one reason why I hope they'll respect that I'm champion and be fair.
~ Liam Smith
Miami's my favorite art fair. I even surfed there one year.
~ Richard Phillips
Loggers and mills in Maine and across the country deserve fair trade policies and more support from our federal government.
~ Sara Gideon
I love the Minnesota State Fair, and I go with my family every August for nearly all 12 days.
~ Andrew Zimmern
She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which men would play a part—vistas of probable triumphs—the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won.
~ Thomas Hardy
Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word "ask"—as in "We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But of course governments do not ask, they tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not "ask" for contributions. It takes.
~ Thomas Sowell
If this century was to be known by anything other than its fair share of atrocities and diseases, then surely the gullibility of the weak-minded would qualify as a footnote.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
May, with alle thy floures and thy grene,Welcome be thou, faire, fresshe May.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
~ Helen Clark
The fair request ought to be followed by the deed, in silence.
~ Dante Alighieri
A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains.
~ Anonymous
A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.
~ Anonymous
None but the brave deserve the fair.
~ John Dryden
To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What Man has made of Man.
~ William Wordsworth
We must enforce the laws we have on the books, secure our borders, and deny special benefits to illegal immigrants such as in-state tuition rates. This approach is best for American citizens and is fair to those who have taken the time and effort to go through the legal immigration process.
~ Ron DeSantis
On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.
~ Charles Vest
In my case, I estimate that the members of the British Chiropractic Association have an annual turnover of £100m, and the BCA decided to sue me personally. I was very close to backing down and apologising for an article that was fair and accurate.
~ Simon Singh