Quotes about Fairness
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
- Thomas Jefferson
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook
- Thomas Jefferson
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
- Thomas Paine
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
- George Eliot
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
- Ulysses S. Grant
And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.
- Kamala Harris
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
- Euripides
Never ask anyone to do anything for you that you wouldn't do for him or her if the circumstances were reversed. There is a
- Napoleon Hill
Unfair suffering is never funny.
- Charles Swindoll
What's fair ain't necessarily right
- Toni Morrison