Fairness Quotes - Page 8

• Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?

  William D. Cohan

  Jobs, People, Pay

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• That's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, Opportunity, Roots

  "Elizabeth Warren Speech Text: Read The Democratic Candidate’s DNC Remarks", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Fair words gladden so many a heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Fairs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.296

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• Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

  Freya Stark

  Influential, Unfair, Used

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• Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Class, Special

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• In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

  Storm Jameson

  Grief, Loss, Thinking

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• Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

  Joan Crawford

  Sometimes, Deals, Bottom

  Roy Newquist, Joan Crawford (1980). “Conversations with Joan Crawford”

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• Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

  Joel Osteen

  Art, School, Western Culture

  "Joel Osteen — Always Taking The High Road". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I have to say that it was a thrilling ride to be on 'Terriers.' It was this odd circumstance where it was really loved by the people it was loved by, but it didn't do well. In fairness to FX, they were just so generous in keeping it on the air the whole year.

  Donal Logue

  Air, Years, People

  "Donal Logue Talks SONS OF ANARCHY, How His Role Came About and His Possible Return Next Season, Plus His Experience in VIKINGS and SILENT NIGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• Is she kind as she is fair?

  William Shakespeare

  Kind, Fairs

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

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• I've all venture a guess as we saw a lot of those executives going in for the viewers, we saw a bunch of Fox News executives going in there. We saw Jeff Zucker president of CNN standing there, just in case you don't know those faces. So there was all of muckety-mucks from all of the media, cable, broadcast, you name it.What is fairness to [Donald] Trump? With President-elect Trump?

  Kellyanne Conway

  Cnn, Media, Names

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Selfish, Party, Thinking

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• Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taxpayers

  Source: time.com

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• Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Negativity, Assuming, Worst

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• [ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice.

  Jay Roach

  Fighting, Justice, Different

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Home

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.124, Knopf

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• The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

  Rob Bell

  Weight, Maintaining, Hebrew

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• It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.

  Tim Powers

  Mail, Fairs

  "Last Call". Book by Tim Powers, April 1992.

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• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Simple, Pale Yellow

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.

  John Gierach

  Life, Ideas, Big Fish

  John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out their feelings about gays and lesbians. The trajectory is undeniable. The trend line is clear. And the choice before the justices is whether to be handmaidens to history, or whether to sit it out.

  Frank Bruni

  Gay, Justice, Choices

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• Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Men, Psychics

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• If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

  Frans de Waal

  Motivation, Inspiration, Compassion

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• The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of people, and I cannot imagine who has the right to speak on their behalf using a "public" voice. If the multiplicity of the environment is its true nature, then my works defend this truthfulness. The greatest fairness in society is to defend the difference between each individual - the fairness and truthfulness of their inconsistency and differentiation.

  Wang Jianwei

  People, Speak, Environment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Inspirational, Education, Strong

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