Quotes about Fairness

isn't fair. It isn't going to be fair. Stop sniveling and whining and go out and make it happen for you. Wishing that a risk wasn't yours to take won't make it any easier. In fact, it might make it harder. Your attitude about it is your choice.

how we view a person is reflected by how we treat a person.

Anytime a relationship is unequal, it cannot last—whether you are giving more than you get or getting more than you deserve.

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.

A person's zip code shouldn't decide their destiny.

I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

Majorities, no less than minorities, need the assurance that they are being treated fairly, otherwise they are sure to mobilize through democratic channels to affirm their interests. By not only tolerating but enshrining it in law, proportional representation is rapidly balkanizing the country along racial lines, destroying the confidence of citizens that the law will treat them equally and provoking a strong and largely justified backlash.

Summing up, we can see that the progressive pitches about greed, selfishness, and inequality are basically diversions. They seek to deflect us away from the core issue, which is that the creators of the wealth are the ones who deserve the wealth they have created. To put it in primitive terms, the farmer who grew the crops gets to keep the crops and the hunters who killed the deer get to eat the deer.

All of us, from time to time, aren't treated fairly, but it's the heroes who overcome their oppressors to accomplish their important mission.

One of the things I admire most about John is his ability to hold compassion in one hand and justice in the other. He offers both liberally and yet they don't cancel each other out.

No one can take away the opportunity that you deserve.