Best 249 quotes in «fairness quotes» category

With regard to character and reward, society has its priorities completely backward. We who enjoy experiencing and sharing physical pleasure are stigmatized and criminalized. Meanwhile those who enjoy controlling, punishing, and otherwise exercising power over non-consenting others are paid large salaries at the public's expense. Often they are given special uniforms and called heroes.

You always have to make sure things are fair.' I shook my head. 'I do not require fairness. Only justice.

You are not for the left or right team, but for what is right against the wrong.

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

You can tell a politician is lying when they claim they want fairness for all. They're part of and represent an unfair elite who will never share their wealth, power or opportunities with the underclass.

You have no concept of fairness, apart from your desire to have your own way. I suggest you put that notion from your head, because despite what you believe, the realms will not cater to your whims, and neither will I.

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

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

As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

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

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.

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

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.

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.

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.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

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

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.

Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]

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

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.

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.

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

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

Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

. . . 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.

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

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