Fairness Quote by Potter Stewart Download Open image “Fairness is what justice really is.” — Potter Stewart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fairness Justice
If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness. — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Once you understand what a messy, emotional, and destructive dynamic 'fairness' can be, you can see why 'fair' is a tremendously powerful word that… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Fairness means dealing with others consistently and justly.One must avoid leaping to conclusions based on incomplete evidence. Treat everyone fairly, and in return you… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same. — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
“For when everything is classified, then nothing is classified, and the system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless, and… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution,… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility. — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in saving the… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
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… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It's the shock of the thing, is what I'm saying, and my new and somewhat untested theory is that when something is shocking it… — Krystelle Bamford Copy Share Image
Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image