Quotes about Fairness
And then there was the unsettling fact that, despite whatever my mother might claim, the bullies, cheats, and self-promoters seemed to be doing quite well, while those she considered good and decent people seemed to get screwed an awful lot.
- Barack Obama
For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.
- Barack Obama
When you get rid of the estate tax," he said, "you're basically handing over command of the country's resources to people who didn't earn it. It's like choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the children of all the winners at the 2000 Games.
- Barack Obama
I'll never get over my grappling for balance, never stop believing life is going to be fair , the minute we can clear up all these mistakes of the temporarily misguided.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles.
- Stephen Covey
Justice from Love, and Love from Justice.
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
- William Howard Taft
If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.
- Barack Obama
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
- Mark Twain
Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love
- Mother Teresa
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
- William Hazlitt
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
- Joseph Addison