fairness quotes

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.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

An index is a great leveller.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

I am a just man.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

It is right to give every man his due.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

I never sympathise with the accused unless there’s a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don’t ever sympathise with the criminal.

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

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Due process should matter.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

More law, less justice.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.