Fairness Quotes

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  • Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

  • Where terrorists offer injustice, disorder and destruction, the United States and its allies stand for freedom, fairness, equality, hope, and opportunity.

    "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.
  • Justice delayed is justice denied.

    Law   Justice   Fairness  
    Speech in House of Commons, 16 Mar. 1868.
  • Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.

    William Shakespeare (1791). “THE PLAYS OF William Shakspeare, COMPLETE IN EIGHT VOLUMES.: CONTAINING KING JOHN, RICHRARD II. HENRY IV. PART I. HENRY IV. PART II. HENRY V. THE ENGRAVINGS TO THIS VOLUME ARE, TWO SCENES TO EACH PLAY, AND TWO ALLEGORIES. ALLEGORIES. 1. YOUTH ATTENDING THE DICTATES OF SHAKSPEARE. 2. THE TRAGIC AND COMIC MUSE ADORNING THE STATUE OD SHAKSPEARE”
  • Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

    William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.912, BookCaps Study Guides
  • I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.

    Jobs   Integrity   Rights  
    "Jeff Sessions Previously Denied Federal Judgeship Amid Racism Controversy". Interview with Nina Totenberg, wxxinews.org. January 9, 2017.
  • Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.

    Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group
  • 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.

    People   Trying   Quality  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

    Anger   Men   Wrath  
  • Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

  • The sense of loss of control over what happens to you at work (and thus in your life is vital). This further involves a sense of fairness as in, I did my part and look where it got me! "The deal," the contract between employee and employer has eroded and been replaced with unilateral power by the organization over the employee.

    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.

  • Ms. Merkel is avoiding retirement issues. She simply doesn't want to do anything, although she knows that doing nothing means that real pensions will fall. That is preprogrammed old-age poverty. When it comes to wage fairness: It was Ms. Merkel herself who blocked the establishment of a right to return to a fulltime job after going part time for a period. Yet everyone keeps saying that our platform is identical to that of the conservatives. It's crazy.

    Retirement   Real   Crazy  
  • I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

    Funny   Hate   Integrity  
    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.6
  • Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

  • A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

    "Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.
  • ...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.

  • Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

    "The Lower Depths". Play by Maxim Gorky, 1902.
  • The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

    Wall   Powerful   Men  
    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.842, Best Books on
  • A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.119, Beacon Press
  • Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth

  • 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.

    "Wilson says selfish people, altruistic groups win: interview". Bloomberg News Interview, www.dailyherald.com. April 17, 2012.
  • I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

    Giving   Fairness   Fame  
    "Into the Wild". www.imdb.com. 2007.
  • Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

  • It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

    Men   Differences   Law  
  • Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

    Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2652, Best Books on
  • Fair words never hurt the tongue.

    Hurt   Tongue   Fairness  
    Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.84, A&C Black
  • Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

  • Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.

    Doris Haddock, Dennis Burke (2001). “Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year”, p.363, Villard
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