Best 249 quotes in «fairness quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

. . . 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.

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

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

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

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.

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.

Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system.

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

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

Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity.

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.

Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough.

Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy opinion which is worthiest love?

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

One might reasonably wonder whether any amount of failed results would cause liberals to reevaluate the wisdom - and even fairness - of their proposals.

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.

One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to - no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth.