Fairness Quotes - Page 17

• And do so, love, yet when they have devised
  What strainèd touches rhetoric can lend,
  Thou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized
  In true plain words by thy true-telling friend;
  And their gross painting might be better used
  Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Might, Needs

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Sonnets and Narrative Poems”, p.101, Everyman's Library

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• Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

  Jim Hightower

  Nature, Agriculture, Pesticides

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• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Dark, Night

  Sonnet 147

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• Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth

  Jay Abraham

  Integrity, Positive Words, Mouths

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• Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dirty, Practice, Play

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

  Michael Josephson

  Justice, Way, Ethics

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• True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Peace, Kings

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). “Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.55, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.

  Morris Mandel

  Integrity, Character, Names

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• President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended "don't ask don't tell," and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs - because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons.

  Tammy Duckworth

  Daughter, Jobs, Badass

  Tammy Duckworth's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to our well-being. Every day we confront issues relating to the needs and wants of others and must continually make accommodations. And in addressing these conflicting interests, the operative norm is - or should be - fairness, a balancing of the interests and needs of other parties, other 'stakeholders.'

  Peter Corning

  Party, Issues, Humanity

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• Rise above principle and do what is right.

  Walter Heller

  Justice, Principles, Ethics

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• It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

  James A. Baldwin

  Law, Justice, Humanity

  "Fifth Avenue, Uptown" by James A. Baldwin, www.esquire.com. July 1960.

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• It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Giving, Justice, President

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.497, Best Books on

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• Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

  John Vanbrugh

  Justice, Good Man, Ethics

  John Vanbrugh (1730). “Esop. [By Sir John Vanbrugh.]”, p.54

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• The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death penalty, in a smaller county you're not. That raises some significant questions about fairness.

  Greg Zoeller

  Cost, Might, Death Penalty

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• Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.

  Ben Bagdikian

  Nice, Philosophical, Maximum Number

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• It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

  Aristotle

  Men, Differences, Law

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• Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Justice, Rewards

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1976). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII: 1835-1862”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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• I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is - and the death penalty - must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Optimistic, Effort, May

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• Conscience is the chamber of justice.

  Origen

  Justice, Ethics, Chamber

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, p. 46, 1899.

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• Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Horse, Men, Justice

  c.1687 Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Of Punishment'.

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• When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice. Instead, the promise has become a cruel and empty mockery. If not remedied, the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come. We cannot let it continue.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Years, Punishment, Justice

  Thurgood Marshall (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, Chicago Review Press

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• History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization about this may lead us to a defence position that conceals that democracy is an extraordinarily demanding way of rule. It must constantly find new ways to revitalize, to reach out to people and make them active. Dictatorships offers a machinery of obedience, closed and externally well-oiled. Democracy is based on fairness, openness and pulsating life. Therefore it must constantly be won again.

  Olof Palme

  Real, People, Champion

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• The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.

  Lucian

  Country, Kings, Integrity

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• Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

  Michael Josephson

  Things In Life, Justice, Ethics

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