Fairness Quotes - Page 16

• The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

  Raymond Chandler

  Law, Justice, Imperfection

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.54, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects the balance of the democratic process. The fairness of the democratic process.

  Alexander Stille

  Thinking, People, Balance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To this urn let those repair
  That are either true or fair;
  For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Bird, Sigh

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With Notes Critical, Historical and Explanatory, Selected from the Most Eminent Commentators”, p.942

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• Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,
  And young affection gapes to be his heir;
  That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,
  With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Desire, Heirs

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.258

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• Come away, come away, death,
  And in sad cypres let me be laid;
  Fly away, fly away, breath;
  I am slain by a fair cruel maid.

  William Shakespeare

  Cypresses, Maids, Fly Away

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51

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• Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, could find in my heart to stay here still and turn witch.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Night, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1806). “King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra. King Lear. Hamlet. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Othello. Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.555

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• I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was born in a country where the dominant religion was Christianity so I believed in that one. Isn't it weird how that always happens?). Luckily I was also interested in science and nature. And reason and logic. And honesty and truth. And equality and fairness. By the age of eight I was an atheist.

  Ricky Gervais

  Christian, Country, Atheist

  "Repeat offender: New Humanist interviews Ricky Gervais". New Humanist interview, newhumanist.org.uk. September 5, 2011.

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• Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.

  Amish Tripathi

  Efficiency, Concerned

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• There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Mean, Awards

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.92, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Unfair, Employers, Policy

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.349, Macmillan

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• Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,
  To make my end too sudden.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Ends, Fairs

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1855). “The complete works of William Shakespeare: comprising his plays and poems with Dr. Johnson's preface, a glossary, an account of each play, and a memoir of the author”, p.371

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• The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just.

  William Shakespeare

  Arms, Fairs

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Henry IV”, p.112, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Day, night, late, early,
  At home, abroad, alone, in company,
  Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been
  To have her match'd; and having now provided
  A gentleman of princely parentage,
  Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,
  Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,
  Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man-
  And then to have a wretched puling fool,
  A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,
  To answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love;
  I am too young, I pray you pardon me'!

  William Shakespeare

  Home, Sleep, Night

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1813). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Twenty-one Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.184

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• But pearls are fair; and the old saying is:
  Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Black

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.277

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• A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men...It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.

  Katha Pollitt

  Men, Justice, Feminist

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• That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
  For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
  The ornament of beauty is suspect,
  A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Air, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.29, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Advance our standards, set upon our foes;
  Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
  Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

  William Shakespeare

  Saint George, Dragons, Standards Set

  1592-3 Richard. Richard III, act 5, sc.6, l.77-81.

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• What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?

  William Shakespeare

  Ems, Vengeance, Speak

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2772, Oxford University Press

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• Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.

  William Shakespeare

  Believe, Youth, Thee

  William Shakespeare (1798). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's Last Edition...”, p.389

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• Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

  Jack Dempsey

  Justice, Ethics, Chance

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• Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,
  Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
  A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

  William Shakespeare

  Sheep, Tree, Olives

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale”, p.173

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• Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

  Maxim Gorky

  Optimistic, Men, Justice

  "The Lower Depths". Play by Maxim Gorky, 1902.

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• I once did hold it, as our statists do,
  A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much
  How to forget that learning; but, sir, now
  It did me yeoman's service.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Yeoman, Forget

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 33

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• . . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.

  William Shakespeare

  Roots, Weather, Impossible

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.198

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• If you did wed my sister for her wealth,
  Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness;
  Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;
  Muffle your false love with some show of blindness;
  Let not my sister read it in your eye;
  Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;
  Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty;
  Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;
  Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;
  Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;
  Be secret-false.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Kindness, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Dramatic and Poetic”, p.287

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