Best 249 quotes in «fairness quotes» category

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

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

Even if you want to conjure up some things, they are not reason enough to rip America apart, particularly under the guise of fairness or whatever. It's destructive.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

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.

Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]

Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.

Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

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.

Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.

I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

I don’t believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness.

If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it.

If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

If you treat me fairly, I'll give you all my goods.

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.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.

Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.

In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child immediately.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

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.

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.

It still boils down to one thing: The left cannot beat Fox News in the arena of cable news. The media, the left cannot beat Fox News. The only option they have is to destroy it. Because they can't outcompete it as is evidenced by ratings day in and day out since 1996, when Fox debuted. The standard operating procedure for the left is not to level the playing field but to close it. It's to deny participation on the playing field, not level it. No tolerance. No fairness.

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.

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.

Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.

Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.