Quotes about Fairness
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
- Thomas Jefferson
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
- Thomas Paine
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
- Aristotle
We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.
- Hillary Clinton
Equality begins with economic empowerment.
- George H. W. Bush
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.
- Aristotle
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.
- Thomas Paine
Whom hast thou then, or what, to accuse, but heaven's free love dealt equally t'all?
- John Milton
Those with extra money discover how much more satisfying it is to see talent and fairness grow than to see objects accumulate. Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.
- Gloria Steinem
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so;
- James Allen