Fairness Quotes · Page 4

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

— Rush Limbaugh

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

— Eli Siegel

Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]

— Christian Karembeu

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

— Sue Monk Kidd

Many things in life are not fair but all things should be.

— Michael Josephson

The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom

— Jim Webb

As Democrats, we believe in fairness and opportunity.

— Jaime Harrison

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

— Johnny Carson

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?

— Bill Maher

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they…

— Oscar Wilde

In fairness, you know, I'm a big believer in if your kid makes noise in the restaurant you should remove the child…

— Anthony Bourdain

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

— Mel Torme

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

— Isaiah Berlin

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.”

— Jodi Picoult

“You do not tell people to go fuck themselves and then later when you're in trouble ask them to help you.”

— James Carlos Blake

In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of…

— Lisa Randall

We are certain that Ukraine needs profound constitutional reform. In all fairness, we can't see any other way to ensure the stable…

— Sergei Lavrov

“Criminal justice" is what happens after a complicated series of events has gone bad. It is the end result of failure--the failure…

— Paul Delano Butler

I have never used a fairness cream in my life. I don't think being fair is in any way superior to any…

— Taapsee Pannu

As for LGBTQ people supporting Donald Trump (or other Republicans), I do understand that some of them value his stances on immigration,…

— Steven Petrow

“(Regarding a twenty-questions game:) Did you know that the Russian composer Aram Katchaturian described his ‘Sabre Dance’ as no more than a…

— Stephen Minkin

Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea…

— Jonathan Haidt

Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks…

— William Shakespeare

Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect…

— P. M. Forni

When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the…

— Thurgood Marshall

“Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need…

— Joss Whedon

You can keep raising it, but at some point, everybody who believes in a minimum wage will say, "No, wait a minute.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such…

— Lewis Nkosi

“I do not believe in the government of the lash, if any one of you ever expects to whip your children again,…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing…

— Francine Pascal

Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest…

— William Shakespeare

I have faith in God, and I have faith in the fairness of the American people.

— Brett Kavanaugh

“Stand up for what is right against the wrong.”

— Suzy Kassem

The question of societal fairness is always pertinent.

— Martin Schulz

I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.

— George Voinovich

Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be.

— Michael Josephson

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

— Plato

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

— John Bercow

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

— Michael Josephson