Top 100 Quotes About Fairness
#1. Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.
Thomas Sowell
#2. Although in fairness he flirted with everyone and everything - dogs, pot plants, a packet of chocolate digestives.
Vicky Pattison
#3. Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about [every] issue ... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up.
Rush Limbaugh
#4. Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.
Wes Fesler
#5. I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.
Barack Obama
#6. It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness, and chivalry 'masculine' when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as 'feminine.
C.S. Lewis
#7. I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
Kate Adie
#8. I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.
Jim Webb
#9. Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.
David Cameron
#10. My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.
Mike Honda
#11. Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?
William D. Cohan
#12. It isn't fair, but maybe that's the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.
Susan Wiggs
#13. I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
Ian Watson
#14. There's something about the American people: They have such an innate sense of fairness that the red light goes on and the bells go off the second you approach that line. Any kind of personal attack is verboten. You shouldn't do it; it's not worth it.
Roger Ailes
#15. We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.
Deepak Chopra
#16. Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.
William Weld
#17. Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#18. The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.
Laila Lalami
#19. I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
#20. I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.
John Rawls
#21. Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.
Mitt Romney
#22. The aspiration of society is the flourishing of its members, this report gives evidence on how to achieve societal well?being. It's not by money alone, but also by fairness, honesty, trust and good health.
Jeffrey Sachs
#23. You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.
Bryan Stevenson
#24. Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.
Michael Novak
#25. Here's an idea you can use in your witnessing as people throw out their objections to believing in God. Many will say, 'God isn't fair, and I'm glad. If He were fair, you and I wouldn't be here today. We'd be in hell. What we really need is not God's fairness, but His mercy.
Tony Evans
#26. that there's some meaning, some willfulness to life. Fairness. Basic decency. Good things happen
Nicola Yoon
#27. As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.
Ben Bradlee
#28. I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.
L. Todd Rose
#29. We can do better ... We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.
Hillary Clinton
#30. Leadership's defining quality is honesty. To honesty, add fairness and consistency.
Cole C. Kingseed
#31. Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
Brit Hume
#32. It's not fair! (Ryssa)
Because life was ever about fairness.
Oh, to be as naive as his sister.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#34. Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.
Rick Riordan
#35. We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.
Jodi Rell
#36. If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.
Calvin Coolidge
#37. Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall
#38. You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
Gail Collins
#39. We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#40. Whoever invented the concept of fairness, anyway? Isn't everything easier if you simply get rid of the idea of justice altogether? You think the quantity of pleasure, the degree of suffering is constant among all men?
Paul Bowles
#41. 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
Gary Bauer
#42. Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.
Amish Tripathi
#43. Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.
Ken Auletta
#44. I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. Wilson
#45. All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice.
George W. Bush
#46. It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
Harry Oppenheimer
#47. Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.
Tim Huelskamp
#48. As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
Stephen Harper
#50. I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.
William J. Clinton
#51. Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.
Mike Lowry
#52. You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they build the institutions within which competition takes place.
Douglas Massey
#53. To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.
Peter Munk
#54. Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#55. My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.
Douglas Alexander
#56. We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.
Mario Cuomo
#58. I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.
William J. Clinton
#59. In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation ...
William J. Clinton
#60. We tend to think that God doesn't struggle with mundane things like frustrations and anger. But one of his major points of frustrations is WHEN there is no man to stand for justice, fairness and equity
Sunday Adelaja
#61. You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and a tool to institute fairness that capitalism supposedly hasn't.
David Harsanyi
#62. If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.
Roy Blunt
#64. 'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.
Thomas Sowell
#65. Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.
Rosa DeLauro
#66. There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky.
But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#67. If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society
Sunday Adelaja
#68. As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.
Anderson Cooper
#69. Fairness isn't getting what everyone else gets. Fairness is getting what you need.
Liliana Shelbrook
#70. Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.
Richard Rogers
#71. I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.
Michael Palin
#72. The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women ... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
Natalie Dormer
#73. I fell for Levi "Painter" Brooks the first time I saw him, although in all fairness I did have a head injury at the time.
Joanna Wylde
#74. Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
Walter F. Mondale
#75. Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance.
Jay Woodman
#76. In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are ... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world.
Lisa Randall
#77. These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln
#78. The Universe is about maintaining balance, not fairness. It is by means of balance that true fairness exists in the Universe.
Leot Felton
#79. There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.
P. J. O'Rourke
#80. Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent.
Nina Easton
#81. Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have never had sex outside of marriage and never lied about their sex lives either denying or exaggerating!
Patricia Ireland
#82. Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong - or fairness versus unfairness - that we are used to, we can compare the habit to distraction during meditation.
Sharon Salzberg
#83. You looked like the sexiest woman in the world."
"Well, in fairness, I am the sexiest woman in the world."
"And you're always right."
"You are so brilliant to recognize that.
Rachel Caine
#84. Opportunities are rare in this life, and fairness, rarer still. So, when you discover a fair opportunity, go after as if it were your last because it very well might be.
Joel T. McGrath
#85. In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?
Scott Fujita
#86. A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
Zendaya
#87. I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly. That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about.
Emma Cline
#88. Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.
Ronald Reagan
#89. I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.
Michael Pollan
#90. When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
Dalton McGuinty
#91. Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.
Jim Bridenstine
#92. And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.
Elizabeth Warren
#93. Still, how much jurisdiction does fairness hold over sex? If fairness was what you wanted, your sex life would be as exciting as the algae growing in an aquarium.
Haruki Murakami
#94. Even if all philosophers do eat, some may eat more than others. This situation is called "lack of fairness". Or life.
Dennis E. Shasha
#95. Fairness is one of the most significant traits in wisdom, the fairer you are, the wiser you become.
Pearl Zhu
#96. Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek a kind of fairness.
Haruki Murakami
#97. No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton Chekhov
#98. When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?
Khaled Hosseini
#99. To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.
James Cook
#100. At a basic level, procedural due process is essentially based on the concept of "fundamental fairness.
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