Fairness Quotes

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

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.

To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.

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.

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

We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.

The question of societal fairness is always pertinent.

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

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.

Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man

People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.

I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

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

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]

That's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do.

Integrity, respect, compassion, and fairness become obstacles to people who think winning is everything

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

To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

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

Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.

I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.

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.

Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.

Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.

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

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.

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.

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

Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take money away as in the way you disburse it.

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

Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility.

In fact the Hillary [Clinton] convention which did very well but not nearly as well as mine, in all fairness, would've gotten one-third the ratings they got if I weren't.

The biggest story in all of politics are the millions of people that are coming out to vote for me, in all fairness, for the Republican Party.

In a Trump administration we're going to go about creating a new relationship between America and Mexico, but it's going to be a fair relationship. We want fairness.

In a Trump administration we're going to go about creating a new relationship between our two countries [U.S and Mexico], but it's going to be a fair relationship. We want fairness.

In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton I want you to be very happy. It's very important to me.