fairness Quotes

“Life isn’t fair, it’s just fairer than death, that’s all.”

“Consider none your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge.”

Some people said it wasn’t fair for a whole family who didn’t even go to our church to barge in and take over the pageant.

“Well, it may have escaped your notice, but life isn’t fair.”

“We don’t need to be good. But let’s try to be fair.”

“Look, I’m human. It’s hard to be fair sometimes. We don’t always feel the right thing, do the right thing.”

″‘Señor, does it not bother you that some of your compadres live better than others?’ yelled one of Marta’s friends. ‘We are going to strike in two weeks. At the peak of the cotton. For higher wages and better housing!‘”

“Life, I’ve learned, is never fair. If people teach anything in school, that should be it.”

“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”

“The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury.”

“If you still believe in fairness, then you’ve led a very lucky life.”

“Tell them, that the Being we all worship, under different names, will be mindful of their charity; and that the time shall not be distant, when we may assemble around his throne, without distinction of sex, or rank, or color!”

“Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.”

“Mr. Drummond. You’ve got to call the whole thing off. It’s not too late. Bert knows he did wrong. He didn’t mean to. And he’s sorry. Now why can’t he just stand up and say to everybody: ‘I did wrong. I broke a law. I admit it. I won’t do it again.’ Then they’d stop all this fuss, and—everything would be like it was.”

“The use of this title prejudices the case of my client: it calls up a picture of the prosecution, astride a white horse, ablaze in the uniform of a militia colonel, with all the forces of right and righteousness marshaled behind him.”

“Cates, I’ll change your plea and we’ll call off the whole business—on one condition. If you honestly believe you committed a criminal act against the citizens of the state and the minds of their children. If you honestly believe that you’re wrong and the law’s right. Then the hell with it.”

“He well knew why He did, and what He meant. For in that fairest chain of love He bound Fire and air and water and the ground Of earth in certain limits they may not flee.”

“The First Great Cause and Mover of all above When first He made that fairest chain of love, Great was the consequence and high the intent.”

“One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It’s not and it won’t. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what’s wrong with life. “It’s not fair,” we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.”

“and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself.”

“I hope you don’t expect fairness from me, Alina. It isn’t one of my specialties.”

“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, I won’t be laid-a-hand on. I don’t do these things to other people and I require the same of them.”

“That word again – responsibility. I’d been hearing it so much lately. From my teachers, from my parents, from everybody. Because I was tall (was that my fault?) and I played footy […] I ended up with all this responsibility. It didn’t seem fair.”

“It’s not fair, after all, to lick tigers so small.”

“Part of the problem is that we tend to think that equality is about treating everyone the same, when it’s not. It’s about fairness. It’s about equity of access.”

“No person in a transaction should have certainty about the outcome while the other one has uncertainty.”

“Because I don’t want you coming against your will. That wouldn’t be fair. I really want you to come, but if you said, Josie, I don’t want to, then I’d say to Mom, okay, we can’t have her, no way.”

Between thee and me the scale hangs fairly balanced.

“No, you’ve always been fair and square with me, Muff Potter, and I won’t go back on you. There, now, that’s as fair as a man can say.”

“Alas!” said Candide, “dear Pangloss has often demonstrated to me that the goods of this world are common to all men, and that each has an equal right to them.”