Quotes about Fairness

I'm interested in two things. I'm interested in truth and I'm interested in fairness.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

You can't bring an accusation against a pastor simply because you do not like him.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.