Top 100 Quotes About Fairness
#1. In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like.
Ken Starr
#3. When fairness disappears from the public discuss of any nation, when partiality replaces impartiality, God begins to look
Sunday Adelaja
#4. Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.
Andrew Klavan
#5. The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death penalty, in a smaller county you're not. That raises some significant questions about fairness.
Greg Zoeller
#6. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
Lois Lowry
#7. The true measure of a real man is that he has the ability to admit when he is wrong, apologize, and make amends to those he wronged
Richard Ashworth
#8. I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.
Donal Logue
#9. I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
Gail Collins
#10. I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
Victor Ponta
#11. Star Wars and Star Trek are good in different ways, and in fairness, you can't really rank them. But Star Wars is better. "YOUR
Cass R. Sunstein
#12. Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.
David Gemmell
#13. The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.
Robert Cheeke
#14. [D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.
Andrew Sullivan
#15. Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.
Rush Limbaugh
#16. My family was made of good people who did good things with what they were given. What fairness does life show in a time like this? But life is not fair and that is nothing new, so I bottled the pain and loss, and released them through a single tear rolling down my cheek.
B.M. Tolbert
#17. For love doesn't stand alone, nor can it, but trails like a blazing comet, bringing with it other shining goods - forgiveness, kindness, tolerance, fairness, companionability and friendship, all bound to the love which is at the heart of Jesus's message.
Ian McEwan
#18. Inclusion and fairness in the workplace ... is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.
Alexis Herman
#19. As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service
Wangari Maathai
#20. My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics and living up to the commitments you make to others. He ultimately became a judge, and he would talk to me over and over about how important it is to be fair.
John W. Rogers Jr.
#21. Ain't nothing in this world just for the taking...A man got to pay a fair price for taking...Matter of give a little, take a little.
Kate Grenville
#22. Government, too, must have qualities of the spirit," Collins told the crowd. "Truth and justice and fairness and unselfish service are some of these. Without these qualities there is no worthwhile
Gilbert King
#23. It is staggering how completely, fully and fairly life supports you if your negativity will allow the blessings to arrive.
Bryant McGill
#24. Some two thousand stone-throwing protesters gathered in the street outside the school. They chanted, "We want fairness. There is no fairness if you don't let us cheat." It sounds like a joke, but they were absolutely serious.
Cathy O'Neil
#25. Excellence calls for character ... integrity ... fairness ... honesty ... a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.
Price Pritchett
#26. Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.
Al Green
#27. A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.
Jeffrey Kluger
#28. Isn't protecting our legal citizens from an invading army of illegal aliens who are using our services and taking our jobs, isn't that a basic notion of fairness? Isn't that in the Constitution? Where is the fairness to American citizens here?
Rush Limbaugh
#30. Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
Epicurus
#31. Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#33. This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child
Gordon Brown
#34. Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues
Jim Hightower
#35. Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties
busybodies
can prevent mutual accommodations by others.
Thomas Sowell
#36. We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.
Melina Mercouri
#37. Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?"
Doug: "Only in my dreams."
Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred."
Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all fairness though that Christy's boyfriend is my best friend. He's the brick wall you should be worried about.
Robin Jones Gunn
#38. Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
E. O. Wilson
#39. Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity.
Rush Limbaugh
#40. ... it's better in fact to be guilty of manslaughter than of fraud about what is fair and just.
Plato
#41. Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
Freya Stark
#42. Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
James Q. Wilson
#43. In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.
Haruki Murakami
#44. How do you measure someone's life? By the scope of their accomplishments, or the number of people they've touched, or by the width of a hand? None of it seemed fair. None of it seemed like enough.
Yvonne Woon
#45. I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
Byron Dorgan
#46. There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.
Ronald Reagan
#47. You do not tell people to go fuck themselves and then later when you're in trouble ask them to help you.
James Carlos Blake
#48. If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.
Larry J. Sabato
#49. That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
William Shakespeare
#50. One might reasonably wonder whether any amount of failed results would cause liberals to reevaluate the wisdom - and even fairness - of their proposals.
David Limbaugh
#51. Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
Isaiah Berlin
#52. President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs. Because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons!
Tammy Duckworth
#53. Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.
Michael Hintze
#54. Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.
Daniel Kahneman
#55. You have no concept of fairness, apart from your desire to have your own way. I suggest you put that notion from your head, because despite what you believe, the realms will not cater to your whims, and neither will I.
Dawn Jayne
#56. Don't confuse fairness with justice. Justice is about doing what is right. Fairness means everyone gets exactly the same thing.
Tim Stevens
#57. But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.
Bob Cousy
#58. The balance of power has shifted - and how we've moved from a world of caveat emptor, buyer beware, to one of caveat venditor, seller beware - where honesty, fairness, and transparency are often the only viable path.
Daniel H. Pink
#59. I believe that fairness creams protect the skin against the harsh effects of the sun.
Virat Kohli
#60. The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one. They were very close now, almost touching, and then they went together and become one very large star.
I don't know if things like that are fair or not.
Richard Brautigan
#62. There is no true peace without fairness , truth , justice and solidarity .
Pope John Paul II
#63. Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.
Eli Siegel
#64. A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men ... It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.
Katha Pollitt
#65. Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#66. Fairness does not govern life and death.
Mitch Albom
#67. There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for the perfect city and the perfect government in the perfect country with perfect people, just wait a little while longer - it's coming
David Berg
#68. The seeming imperfections of Earth, the hazards and inequalities of life, the cruelty, harshness and apparent indifference to suffering and affliction are not what they seem; as it is Earth is perfect for its purpose. It is ignorance of that purpose which makes it appear imperfect.
Kolbrin BIble
#69. The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.
Judith Martin
#70. I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.
Bill Keller
#71. She still talks of fairness. What does fairness have to do with any of this? The people curse my name and pay for you, but you're the one who is ready to abandon them. I'm the one who will give them power over their enemies. I'm the one who will free them from the tyranny of the king.
Leigh Bardugo
#72. I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.
Mason Cooley
#74. If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, ... a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.
Frans De Waal
#75. How else do people find happiness except in fulfilling their duty?"
There can be no happiness without fairness," she said. "Remember that, Om - don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Rohinton Mistry
#76. Fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
Agnes Repplier
#77. Anyone who expects fairness in this life is seriously misinformed.
Jack Higgins
#78. Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.
Margaret Thatcher
#79. I think the sense of fairness in humans is very strongly developed, and that's why we react so strongly to all the bonuses received by Wall Street executives. We want to know why they deserve these benefits.
Frans De Waal
#80. In fairness, Latin America's elected civilian leaders have made progress in some areas. They have brought their countries back to international respectability, curbed flagrant human rights violations, and sought to build democratic political institutions.
Stephen Kinzer
#81. The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#82. You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
Sal Albanese
#83. Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?
Thomas Sowell
#84. But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights, .. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.
Leo Hindery
#85. Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so,
Not what is dangerous present, but the los
Of what is past.
William Shakespeare
#86. Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
Anne Campbell
#87. Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.
Brenda Ueland
#88. The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
Morris Dees
#89. Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.
Andy Stanley
#90. Fair-minded people avoid zero-sum games in which one-person's win translates into another person's loss.
Frank Sonnenberg
#91. Love is like life with or without justice, with or without fairness.
Fadi Hattendorf
#92. We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.
Ronald Reagan
#93. I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.
Criss Jami
#94. Affirmative action is about fairness, for redressing widespread unfairness. Conservatives
George Lakoff
#95. Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.
Al-Ma'arri
#96. If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back.
Arnold Palmer
#97. The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
Marian Wright Edelman
#98. The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behavior it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.
Herman E. Daly
#99. What is punishment and theft to conservatives is civic duty and fairness to liberals. There
George Lakoff
#100. I would say to the president: This is not about me. This is not about Republicans here in Congress. It's about fairness for the America people.
John Boehner
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