Fairness Quotes - Page 6

• To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.

  James Cook

  People, Good Man, Bluntness

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• Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

  Michael Short

  Leadership, Honesty, Integrity

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• I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Religious, Men, Giving

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.187, Rowman & Littlefield

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• My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

  Hilda Solis

  Book, Law, Roles

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• 'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, Mean, Government

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• Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take; they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business.

  Kevin Flynn

  Running, Play, Ontario

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• Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Justice, Balance, Accused

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• My young friends, I look forward to you as the real makers of Pakistan, do not be exploited and do not be misled. Create amongst yourselves complete unity and solidarity. Set an example of what youth can do. Your main occupation should be in fairness to yourself, to your parents, in fairness to the State, to devote your attention to your studies. If you fritter away your energies now, you will always regret.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Regret, Real, Young Friends

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• The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Europe, Justice

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• I know the way, what I have to walk. I know the spiritual power, world-creating energy, what I have to lay its account with. There's no doubt: we come out into a better still world part and we will be delighted in unfailing fairnesses.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Spiritual, Creating, Doubt

  "The Otherworld". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary,

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• On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!

  Ursula Bloom

  Life, Games, Umpires

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• I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.

  Mason Cooley

  Care, Open Minded, I Care

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• The American people understand that it is grotesquely unfair - we are a society that prides itself on fairness, that prides itself on equal opportunity, and people are looking out and seeing, since the Great Recession of 2008, 99 percent of all new income going to the top 1 percent.

  Bernie Sanders

  Pride, Opportunity, People

  "Bernie Sanders on America’s ‘grotesquely unfair’ society". Interview with Jim Tankersley, www.washingtonpost.com. July 16, 2015.

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• Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Garden, Growth

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• The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mean, Events, Stay Focused

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

  Andrew Young

  Differences, Athletic, Sportsmanship

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• I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

  Stephen A. Schwarzman

  Issues, Feelings, Important

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• The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.

  Paul Vixie

  Law, Rights, Government

  NANOG mailing list, 2004.

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• The conception of perfect service is constantly expanding and must be handled by broad and liberal minded men who put equity and fairness above gain-who put a proper valuation upon a satisfied customer as an asset running into the thousands of dollars, and who love a job thoroughly well done and get a kick out of doing it.

  Alvan Macauley

  Love, Running, Jobs

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• May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

  Plato

  Justice, May, Hearing

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.439, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

  James Q. Wilson

  Inspirational, Self, People

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• I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.

  Herman Cain

  Thinking, Trying, Would Be

  "Herman Cain: 'Replace the Tax Code'". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2011.

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• A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Whales, People, Greed

  Kurt Vonnegut's address to the graduating class at Bennington College, 1970.

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• Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

  Sophocles

  Honesty, Integrity, Honor

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• Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Mom, Children

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