Fairness Quotes - Page 12

• I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Confidence, Skills

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• Over the years since then though, I couldn't even begin to try and count all the mistakes I've made but also, all the joys I've found while traveling on the road. So in living this kind of lifestyle day in and day out for that many years you learn. You learn a lot about yourself. You learn a lot about how people should be treated and how they should treat each other. For the most part, I've really learned patience, temperament and fairness all around.

  Chuck Ragan

  Mistake, Years, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Anger is about fairness. If it feels that you're getting ripped off or taken advantage of, that's when anger comes up. Sadness deals with loss. And I suddenly had this new revelation - it felt like to me - that those are all true, but the real, deeper reason we have emotions is to connect us together. And that felt big to me.

  Pete Docter

  Real, Taken, Sadness

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• That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book

  Sheri Fink

  Book, Objectivity, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

  L. Todd Rose

  Opportunity, Care, Poor

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.

  William Shakespeare

  Skulls, Hair, Wind

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.56

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• All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice.

  George W. Bush

  America, Justice, Want

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1217, Government Printing Office

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• I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Mean, Lawyer, Process

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• Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Andy Stanley (2008). “How Good Is Good Enough?: Since Nobody's Perfect . . .”, p.53, Multnomah

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• The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom

  Jim Webb

  Wealth, Bottom

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• Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?

  Bill Maher

  Sports, Hunting, Games

  "Video: Bill Maher and Top Comedians ‘Stand Up for Animals’". www.peta.org. June 15, 2014.

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• I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.

  John Rawls

  Justice, Support, Feelings

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.513, Harvard University Press

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• I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.

  Gail Collins

  New York, Thinking, Support

  "Grand Bargain Express". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

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• Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hype

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1845). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: with Elucidations”, p.129, New York, Wiley & Putnam

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• A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Breaking Silence, Revolution

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.119, Beacon Press

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• Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

  Christina Romer

  Hard Work, Minimum Wage, Littles

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• Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  Gary Bauer

  Law, Judging, Quality

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• There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

  Terry Eagleton

  Justice, Humanity, Problem

  "Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

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• A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.

  Terry Eagleton

  Believe, Thinking, Culture

  "Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

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• Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Strong, Powerful, Long

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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• If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the timber of a feminine voice, so much the better for us. Literature never produced a relationship more symbiotic nor a warmer and more timeless friendship.

  Loren D. Estleman

  Voice, Suffering, Literature

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• For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.

  Addison Wiggin

  Differences, Pay, Social

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• Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard. We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.

  Joe Biden

  Cutting, Class, Dollars

  "CBS Uncritically Promotes Obama Campaign's Attack Hinting Romney is 'Less than Truthful'". Interview with Nancy Cordes, www.newsbusters.org. October 5, 2012.

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• If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.

  Roy Blunt

  Senior, Jobs, America

  "Obama warns on student loan interest" by Josh Boak, www.politico.com. April 21, 2012.

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• No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Country, Powerful, Justice

  "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.

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