Fairness Quotes

336 quotes by 266 authors

It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He… — James M. Barrie
Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man — Mitch Albom
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. — Jon Krakauer
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated… — Arthur Golden
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. — Aristotle
As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Fred: "Is that brick wall your boyfriend?" Doug: "Only in my dreams." Fred: "Oh, you too? I'm Fred." Doug: "Doug. I should mention, in all… — Robin Jones Gunn
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ… — Howard Gardner
When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you… — Khaled Hosseini
Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the… — Brenda Ueland
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a… — Haruki Murakami
Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself. — Rick Riordan
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… — Theodore Roosevelt
The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or… — Hunter S. Thompson
Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it… — Kiersten White
Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now — Sue Monk Kidd
Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you. — William Shakespeare

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