quotes about Fairness
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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 -
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.
-- Al GreenSource : "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
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Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.
-- Alexis Herman -
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Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.
-- Amish Tripathi -
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
-- Aristophanes -
If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
-- Arthur C. Brooks -
Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.
-- Barbara Jordan -
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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 -
If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]
-- Christian Karembeu -
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 -
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Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.
-- Eli Siegel -
Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
-- Eli Siegel -
Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.
-- Eli Siegel -
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I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.
-- Esha Gupta -
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon -
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an organic soup ever existed on this planet. We may therefore with fairness call this scenario the myth of the pre-biotic soup.
-- Fred Hoyle -
Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
-- Freya Stark -
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This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child
-- Gordon Brown -
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 -
The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth
-- Jay Abraham -
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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 -
Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues
-- Jim Hightower -
The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom
-- Jim Webb -
Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?
-- Joan Crawford -
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Fairness is not about statistical equality.
-- John BercowSource : "The Saturday interview: John Bercow". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.
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Justice as fairness provides what we want.
-- John RawlsSource : John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.190, Harvard University Press
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I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
-- Jon Krakauer -
Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless
-- Kiersten White -
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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 -
The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I don’t believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness.
-- Margot Adler -
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But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
-- Mel Torme -
Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.
-- Michael Josephson -
The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.
-- Mike Lowry -
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I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei -
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'
-- Murray Rothbard -
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
-- Park Geun-hye -
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I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.
-- Paul ScofieldSource : "Fictional character: Thomas More". "A Man for All Seasons", www.imdb.com. 1966.
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Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
-- Samuel Johnson -
There is balance in life, but not fairness.
-- Shirley HazzardSource : Shirley Hazzard (1988). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, Penguin Group USA
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Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now
-- Sue Monk Kidd -
It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.
-- Tim PowersSource : "Last Call". Book by Tim Powers, April 1992.
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Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.
-- Tim Scott -
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
-- William Blackstone -
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Justice delayed is justice denied.
-- William E. GladstoneSource : Speech in House of Commons, 16 Mar. 1868.
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
-- William J. Brennan -
I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.
-- Yingluck ShinawatraSource : " Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.
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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 MasseySource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you.
-- Kellyanne Conway -
I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.
-- L. Todd RoseSource : Source: www.macleans.ca
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The question of societal fairness is always pertinent.
-- Martin Schulz -
Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.
-- Moon Jae-in -
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Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.
-- Niki Ashton -
Rely on facts, figures, principles of equality and fairness.
-- Steven Petrow -
Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.
-- Ulpian -
The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of people, and I cannot imagine who has the right to speak on their behalf using a "public" voice. If the multiplicity of the environment is its true nature, then my works defend this truthfulness. The greatest fairness in society is to defend the difference between each individual - the fairness and truthfulness of their inconsistency and differentiation.
-- Wang Jianwei -
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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.
-- Addison Wiggin -
I don’t believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness.
-- Margot Adler -
One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions - what has come to be known as a Robin Hood Tax. This tax would raise the costs of short-term speculative trading and therefore discourage speculation. At the same time, the tax will not discourage "patient" investors who intend to hold their assets for longer time periods, since, unlike the speculators, they will be trading infrequently.
-- Robert PollinSource : Source: www.truth-out.org
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Fair words never hurt the tongue.
-- George ChapmanSource : Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.84, A&C Black
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I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.
-- George Voinovich -
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.
-- Judith M Bardwick