Quotes About Equity

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

I'm not no egotistical person. I just want what I'm supposed to get. Not a penny more, not a penny less.

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.

When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Iris praecepta sunt haec: honest vvere, alterum nn laedere, suum cuique tribuere. (Justinian Inst. 1.1:

Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students

Turns' and 'fairness' simply don't come into it. We may care about fairness and unfairness, but coins don't give a toss!

No existe la justicia, ni aquí ni en ninguna parte.

if you give respect, yet get respect back. If you offend, you get...retribution.

Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.

A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.