Browsing Topic Best Fairness Quotes

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

Always Remember: be kind, be fair, be honest, be true, and all of these things will come back to you.

The more laws, the less justice.

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

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

No matter who or what you support, I believe in supporting fairness first.

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration – courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow … I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities.

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

Fairness is not an attitude. It’s a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I’d always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness– a world in which fathers didn’t sell their daughters.

I don’t think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

I’ve always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn’t know a game is going on?

I think it’s true that we shouldn’t apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.

Integrity has no need of rules.

As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.

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 care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,–if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,–if it does not add to the world’s stock of valuable souls,–if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men–I will have none of it.

The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement. [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.

When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. That’s different. When they [Conservative right wing Republicans] talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.

The conception of perfect service is constantly expanding and must be handled by broad and liberal minded men who put equity and fairness above gain-who put a proper valuation upon a satisfied customer as an asset running into the thousands of dollars, and who love a job thoroughly well done and get a kick out of doing it.