Quotes about Fairness
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
— Cicero
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
— Charles Dickens
Peace is the product of justice and love.
— Oscar Romero
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.
— Pope John Paul II
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without justice, there can be no peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
— Frederick Buechner