Quotes about Fairness
None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirements for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell.
- Philip Yancey
it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.
- Philip Yancey
Vengeance is a passion to get even. It is a hot desire to give back as much pain as someone gave you. . . . The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness may be unfair—it is, by definition—but at least it provides a way to halt the juggernaut of retribution.
- Philip Yancey
By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out.
- Philip Yancey
Real justice does two things: It rewards and protects the righteous; and it punishes the sinner and the lawbreaker.
- Derek Prince
The rubric of proportionality had to be observed—that the means were proportional to the objective.
- Desmond Tutu
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
- Sojourner Truth
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
- St. Jerome
When we seek to correct the wrong done to us, we set ourselves up as a judge.
- John Bevere
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.
- John Maxwell
how we view a person is reflected by how we treat a person.
- John Maxwell