Quotes about Fairness

Life is not fair; God is.

A second reason is that, conversely, it is morally necessary for the lowly to be lifted up and the underlings exalted.

In conclusion, we would say that in forming Pharaoh God displayed neither justice nor injustice, but only His bare sovereignty.

People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice.

When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.

I am just and honest, not because I expect to live in another world, but because, having felt the pain of injustice and dishonesty towards myself, I have a fellow-felling with other men, who would suffer the same pain if I were unjust or dishonest towards them. It is a pang to me to witness the suffering of a fellow-being, and I feel his suffering the more acutely because he is mortal—because his life is so short, and I would have it, is possible, filled with happiness and not misery

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

The privileges of a few do not make common law.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

I am in as sweet communion with Christ as a poor sinner can be; and am only pained that He hath much beauty and fairness, and I little love; He great power and mercy, and I little faith; He much light, and I bleared eyes.