Quotes About Equity

contentment, which is the last victory of justice

L'économie est également une invention noble quand elle a pour mission de réguler les liens et les nécessités entre les êtres humains et d'instaurer un ordre équitable à la satisfaction de chacun. Observée d'une façon plus objective, ce que nous appelons économie repose sur l'avidité et l'insatiabilité humaine avec un «toujours plus» stimulé par la publicité.

So I spoke the truth when I said that neither I nor you nor any other man would rather do injustice than suffer it: for it is worse.

For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakeable.

Justice is useful when money is useless.

when equality is given to unequal things, the resultant will be unequal...

whenever there are any taxes, the one who's just pays more tax on an equal amount of property, the other less, and whenever [343E] there are allotments, the former gains nothing, the latter a lot.

ought the just to injure any one at all?

question—What is justice, stripped of appearances?

Y así, la posesión y práctica de lo que a cada uno es propio será reconocida como justicia.

justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him

SOCRATES: First, then, let us consider whether the doing of injustice exceeds the suffering in the consequent pain: Do the injurers suffer more than the injured? POLUS: No, Socrates; certainly not.

the chaos of the world that counted people as different levels of worthy, the Library served all equally. All genders, races, levels of ability. It was the one place they could all be safe.

With you it is always the law, never equity.

those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

Every wrong should be made right, and no right should be forgotten.

The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.

Real justice does two things: It rewards and protects the righteous; and it punishes the sinner and the lawbreaker.

If life was fair, then what?

When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice.

I really believe in being egalitarian.

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.

We have to find greater employment for these people with records.

I am not in the entertainment business; I am in the justice business.