Fairness Quotes - Page 4

• Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Men, Squares

  Speech at New York State Fair, Syracuse, N.Y., 7 Sept. 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 11

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• The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

  Morris Dees

  Children, Fairness And Equality, Focus

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• Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

  William J. Brennan

  Fundamentals, Use, Confession

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• Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.

  Marian Keyes

  Eggs, Focus, Magic

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• I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

  Paul Scofield

  Add, Taste In Music, Should

  "Fictional character: Thomas More". "A Man for All Seasons", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Political, Style, Mastery

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• This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

  Star Jones

  Country, Believe, Missing

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• Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Issues, Income, Matter

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• As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

  Stephen Harper

  Unity, Cost, Bilingualism

  Debates (Hansard) No.155 - House of Commons of Canada, www.ourcommons.ca. May 16, 2007.

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• My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

  Michael M. Honda

  Mother, Thinking, Equal Pay

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• I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

  Kate Adie

  Expression, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

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• The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Children, School, Circles

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.121, e-artnow

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• Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Punishment, Special

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2652, Best Books on

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• Justice - there is an air of nobility about the word. It calls to mind other words like equity, fairness, and truth. It speaks of honor and exactness. It speaks of righteousness. But, sadly, in today's world its application is often anything but noble, honorable, or righteous.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Truth, Air, Justice

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• Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Way, Greater

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• Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

  Spencer Johnson

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Giving, Justice, Aim

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• Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts.

  Anton Julius Carlson

  Dry, Mouths, Facts

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• We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.

  Mario Cuomo

  Believe, Government, Promise

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.

  Ronald Reagan

  Honesty, Real, Rocks

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold

  Peter Singer

  Father, Distance, Views

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering effective self-expression and communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness, mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community and concern for the health of our society is also involved in civility.

  P. M. Forni

  Respect, Nice, Communication

  "Einstein Was a Mensch" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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• The question of societal fairness is always pertinent.

  Martin Schulz

  Pertinent

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.

  Michael Lerner

  Spiritual, Fear, Generosity

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• Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.

  Andrew Klavan

  Dream, Exercise, People

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