Fairness Quotes - Page 2

• If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Justice, Shows, Rely

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Justice delayed is justice denied.

  William E. Gladstone

  Law, Justice, Owners

  Speech in House of Commons, 16 Mar. 1868.

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• I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Objectivity, Perfect

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

  Aristotle

  Witty, Equality, Men

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• Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

  Al Green

  Believe, People, Obeying

  "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, People, Social Justice

  "Why do Politicians Feel Free to Hack Away at Special Education?" by Laurie Levy, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2017.

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• In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

  William J. Clinton

  Heart, Race, Law

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2953, Best Books on

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• Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Respect, Peace, Native American

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• Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Justice, Liberty

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

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• Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

  Price Pritchett

  Determination, Honesty, Integrity

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• People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.

  Peter Yarrow

  Moving, Unique, Play

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• Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, Patriotic

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• A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the table, but above all to satisfy the demands of justice, fairness and respect for every human being.

  Pope Francis

  Fall, Justice, Poverty

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• Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trust, Forgiveness, Powerful

  1883-92 Also sprach Zarathustra ( Thus Spake Zarathustra) (translated by R J Hollingdale).

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• Fair and softly goes far.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Compassion, Literature, Fairs

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Pierre Antoine Motteux (1719). “The history of the renowned don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by several hands: and publ. by P. Motteux”

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  Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Doors, Umpires

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.510, Booklassic

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• Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger

  Colin Powell

  Lying, Law, Poverty

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• We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Children, Equality

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• No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, People, Lapses

  "A Journey to Sakhalin". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Essence

  "Obama's Ultimate Agenda". Column, jewishworldreview.com. April 2, 2009.

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• Things may not be logical or fair, but when God is directing the events of our lives, they are right.

  Luci Swindoll

  God, Faith, Events

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• Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Atheist, Honesty, Thinking

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• The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

  Mark Twain

  Rain, Fall, Unjust

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.221, Univ of California Press

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• Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Gmos, Done

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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