Fairness Quotes

An actor should be judged by his performance only.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant demeans and humiliates him.

How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.

I'm not really a political-type person, meaning that I don't really make great stands or whatever, but if you ask me a direct question I say it shouldn't matter who you are, whether you're black, white, green, gay, male, female. If you can do a job and do it well you should be paid for it, you should be respected for it, and you have to be responsible. I think sometimes people can go too fare trying to make a point. I think they should just make their point and go on about.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I never ever felt that I was unfairly treated.

I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

Justice always whirls in equal measure.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that has created a prosperity that is the envy of the world, and rewarded the innovators and risk-takers who have made America a beacon of science, and technology, and discovery. But the American economy has worked in large part because we have guided the market's invisible hand with a higher principle - that America prospers when all Americans can prosper. That is why we have put in place rules of the road to make competition fair, and open, and honest.

Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.

A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

Overpay good baby-sitters.

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn't a level playing field.

A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders.

It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

We must demonstrate to the American people that in our system of justice all are equal under law, and that there are not two sets of rules, one for Donald Trump and another for everybody else.

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

Always examine the dice.

Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.

Life's not fair, get over it!

Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.

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

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

I know that every trial requires fairness and truth. Any trial that abandons the pursuit of truth cannot be considered fair or just.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine.

Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You see in the old days, why the only thing they knew how to tax was land, or a house. Well, that condition went along for quite awhile, so even today the whole country tries to run its revenue on taxes on land. They never ask if the land makes anything. "It's land ain't it? Well tax it then."

The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

The party belongs to the millions of the rank and file. It does not belong to the handful of politicians who have assumed fraudulently to upset the will of the rank and file. The action of these men is in no sense "regular," as they claim it to be.... theft and dishonesty cannot give and never shall give a title to regularity.

Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}

If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.