Quotes About Equity

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

magis quid se dignum foret, quam quid in illos iure fieri posset, quaerebant.

It's best to be like water, nurturing the ten thousand things without competing, flowing into places people scorn, very like the Tao. Make the earth a dwelling place. Cultivate the heart and mind. Practice benevolence. Stand by your word. Govern with equity. Serve skillfully. Act in a timely way, without contentiousness, free of blame.

To this day, when I hear people judge students on the basis of their test scores, I think of my sleep-deprived African-American classmates as we geared up to take English or math tests together. We may have been equal before God, but I had three more hours of sleep, vastly more time to prepare, and many more resources at my disposal than those who were part of the busing program.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.

There was nothing predictable in this life, and very little that was fair. •

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

Time at length becomes justice.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

No one can read the books of Moses with any care without understanding that law can be a means of grace. Certainly this law is of one spirit with the Son of Man who says, I was hungry and you fed me. I was naked and you clothed me. This kind of worldliness entails the conferring of material benefit over and above mere equity. It means a recognition of and respect for both the intimacy of God's compassion and the very tangible forms in which it finds expression.

Inequality is catching.

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Let a man be of what side he may in politics, — unless he be much more of a partisan than a patriot, — he will think it well that there should be some equity of division in the bestowal of crumbs of comfort

A pior forma de desigualdade é tentar fazer duas coisas diferentes serem iguais.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.