Fairness Quotes - Page 3

• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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  There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

  Elie Wiesel

  Freedom, Philosophy, Military

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

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• A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Justice, Done, May

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.132, Ravenio Books

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• Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.

  Ronald Reagan

  Struggle, Simple, Government

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

  Jodi Rell

  Faith, Office, Citizens

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• Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Greed

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• Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

  Mike Lowry

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

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• Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth;
  it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy
  that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Equality, Able, Doe

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• Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

  Epicurus

  Men, Justice, Ethics

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• I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

  Bill Watterson

  World, Favors, Nonsense

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• I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

  Byron Dorgan

  Country, Believe, Globalization

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• All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full. They’re too interested in themselves to think about what’s fair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Patience, Eye

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• There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.

  Sonia

  Appreciation, Motivation, Integrity

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• Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Offense And Defense, Giving

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• If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Thinking, Definitions, Odd

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• Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Freedom, Democracy, Today

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• We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

  Melina Mercouri

  Thank You, Government, Names

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• What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Country, Government, Oil

  "Fuel protests switch to Scandinavia". www.cnn.com. September 18, 2000.

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• The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

  Loretta Lynch

  Freedom, Responsibility, Power

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• So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

  Gordon Brown

  Responsibility, Years, Ideas

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• But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

  Mel Torme

  Song, Shallow, Mediums

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• Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

  William Weld

  Senior, Years, Income

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• The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

  Mike Lowry

  Trying, Projects

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• To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.

  Peter Munk

  Relationship, Creating, America

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• We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice exists only where there is fairness and equality -- when every man and country is treated and viewed equally. My father believes that there is no such thing as justice because all his life he has witnessed the tipping of the scales. We must change this widespread mentality by making equality a reality, not just something we read and hear about on the TV and in literature.

  Suzy Kassem

  Country, Father, Believe

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