Quotes about Fairness
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.
— Henry Ford
There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.
— Al Gore
Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
— Abraham Lincoln
According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.
— Conan O'Brien
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
— Edmund Burke
Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.
— Euripides
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.
— George Washington
Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
— Henry David Thoreau
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
— Henry David Thoreau