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Quotes About Equity

Could you be ruthless and be fair, at the same time? Isn't to be ruthless, to be unfair?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.
~ Sidney Hillman
Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.
~ Earl Wilson
Nothing in life is fair except a witnessed duel.
~ Lynda Williams
A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.
~ John Rawls
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
~ Aristotle
Mientras que los beneficiarios de nuestra peligrosamente desequilibrada, inestable y poco equitativa globalización consideran su libertad sin freno el mejor medio para alcanzar su propia seguridad, sus víctimas directas o colaterales sospechan que su mayor obstáculo para ser libres (y para hacer uso de cualquier libertad que se les pudiera conceder) radica en la inseguridad, que viven como algo horrible y lamentable.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
But what is unjust? That depends on a person's thoughts, values, and beliefs. People differ sharply on what is just or unjust in this world. Thus, some people become angry much quicker than others.
~ Abraham J. Twerski
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Advancement—improvement in condition—is the order of things in a society of equals.
~ Abraham Lincoln
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
~ Adam Smith
Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favour of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favour of the masters.
~ Adam Smith
Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice.
~ Adrian McKinty
Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice. I understood
~ Adrian McKinty
I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.
~ Aeschylus
I know what's required. It's perfectly simple: Justice.
~ Alan Bennett
A world with one month is a world of equality.
~ Alan Lightman
Both travelling to holy spots and listening to sacred stories are believed to reduce the burden of karmic debts and increase the load of karmic equity.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
~ Domitus Ulpian
People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.
~ Patrice O'Neal
Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
~ Albert Einstein
Life is not fair, so why should I make a course that is fair.
~ Pete Dye
Life isn't fair, but you can be.
~ Tom Selleck
Life's not fair, get over it!
~ Bill Gates