39 Quotes About Fairness

Fairness, equality, and justice are three of the most important values in our society. We all want to live in a fair and just world where everyone gets the same opportunities and fair treatment. However, we often don’t know how to achieve fairness in our lives or know what to do when we encounter unfairness. These quotes about fairness will help you learn how to be fair and fight for what you believe is right.

I am a person who is unhappy with things as...
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I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things. Hugo Claus
Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter...
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Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow. Terri Guillemets
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Do you want to know what General Putnam is thinking? It’s this. He’s thinking that he can’t win the war if he doesn’t keep the people on his side. He’s thinking that he can’t keep the people on his side if the troops are running amok among the civilian population–raping the women, stealing cattle, burning houses. He is determined to scare the wits out of the troops to keep them in line. And he’s thinking that it doesn’t matter very much who he executes to do it. So many men have died, so many mothers have wept, so many brothers and sisters have cried. He is thinking that in the long run if he executes somebody, he’ll shorten the war and save more lives. It doesn’t matter to him very much who he executes; one man’s agony is like another’s, one mother’s tears are no wetter than anybody else’s. And that’s why he’s going to have Sam shot. James Lincoln Collier
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How do you stop those who will stop at nothing? Unknown
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And suddenly he became almost lyric. "For three thousand years the Common Man has been fended off from the full and glorious life he might have had, by Make Believe. For three thousand years in one form or another he has been asking for an unrestricted share in the universal welfare. He has been asking for a fair dividend from civilisation. For all that time, and still it goes on, the advantaged people, the satisfied people, the kings and priests, the owners and traders, the gentlefolk and the leaders he trusted, have been cheating him tacitly or deliberately, out of his proper share and contribution in the common life. Sometimes almost consciously, sometimes subconsciously, cheating themselves about it as well. When he called upon God, they said 'We'll take care of your God for you', and they gave him organised religion. When he calls for Justice, they say 'Everything decently and in order', and give him a nice expensive Law Court beyond his means. When he calls for order and safety too loudly they hit him on the head with a policeman's truncheon. When he sought knowledge, they told him what was good for him. And to protect him from the foreigner, so they said, they got him bombed to hell, trained him to disembowel his fellow common men with bayonets and learn what love of King and Country really means." All with the best intentions in the world, mind you." Most of these people, I tell you, have acted in perfect good faith. They manage to believe that in sustaining this idiot's muddle they are doingtremendous things -- stupendous things -- for the Common Man. They can live lives of quiet pride and die quite edifyingly in an undernourished, sweated, driven and frustrated world. Useful public servants! Righteous self-applause! Read their bloody biographies! . H.G. Wells
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Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men. Carsten Jensen
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Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now Sue Monk Kidd
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The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do... Joe Abercrombie
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To be forced to endure something because you have no money to counter it ; this fact is totally unfair and I can't, personally, tolerate it. Laure Lacornette
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But the vicar of St. Botolph's had certainly escaped the slightest tincture of the Pharisee, and by dint of admitting to himself that he was too much as other men were, he had become remarkably unlike them in this - that he could excuse others for thinking slightly of him, and could judge impartially of their conduct even when it told against him. [from Middlemarch, a quote my mother thinks describes the kind of man my father was] . George Eliot
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Unfortunately Women these days, complain A LOT about "wanting" to be equal to men, and insist that they "are" equal to men. However, when it comes to paying the check at the restaurant, paying for the wedding, or handling any other expenses, suddenly they forget the whole equality phenomenon. If you ask women why, they will just tell you that "I was with a MAN, a real man doesn't let a woman touch her purse, a real man takes care of his lady".. ((So they know the difference between a "Man" and a "Woman".. ))- Man spends, man takes responsibility, man has control..- Woman gets taken care of, women expects man to take responsibility, woman is under control! If you are a woman who "WANTS" to be equal to men, if you are a woman who wants to be "IN CONTROL" rather than being "UNDER CONTROL", start by being equal in doing the hard things first, don't let your boyfriend pay when you go out with him for a year or two, just like he did for you, don't let him pick you up at your home, drive everyday and pick him up to go out for a year or two, if you think it's so hard to do so, keep quite about it.. you're not ready to be equal.. You're just adequate enough to be taken care of.. to be spent for.. Hamidreza Bagheri
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Bring to the table what you want to take away from the table! Unknown
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We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will. Jeffrey D. Sachs
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We naturally think from our own perspective, from a point of view which tends to privilege our position. Fairness implies the treating of all relevant viewpoints alike without reference to one's own feelings or interests. Because we tend to be biased in favor of our own viewpoint, it is important to keep the standard of fairness at the forefront of our thinking. This is especially important when the situation may call on us to see things we don't want to see, or give something up that we want to hold onto. . Linda Elder
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Life is energy, give others the energy you want to receive from others! Unknown
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Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial. David Gemmell
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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just. Victor Hugo
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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong. Mary Wollstonecraft
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What's fair ain't necessarily right. Toni Morrison
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When there is injustice someone should speak. When there is unfairness someone should act. We cannot have liberty and justice for all if we only want it only for ourselves. We must serve God in humble righteousness. Tom Krause
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First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive liberty compatible with similar liberty for others. Second: social and economic inequalities are to be arranged so that they are both (a) reasonably expected to be to everyone's advantage, and (b) attached to positions and offices open to all. John Rawls
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Be fair, just and kind. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Fair has nothing to do with it. This is the law — it has nothing to do with justice. Kenneth Eade
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Jill had three basic statements about life, 1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.3. No one ever said that life was fair. Nicholas Sparks
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We as humans tend to overlook lesser beings and things, but we should instead come to love and respect them. Sandranil Biswas
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In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange. Friedrich Nietzsche
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The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one. They were very close now, almost touching, and then they went together and become one very large star. I don't know if things like that are fair or not. Richard Brautigan
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The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied...and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings. Thomas Jefferson
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Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Christopher Paolini
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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
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But the distinction is important and must be made: the highest virtue is not to give or to take. It is to share. And what I didn’t understand most of my life is that sharing includes serving oneself. It is a subtle distinction, one too subtle for most adults, though most children understand it. Robert Peate
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That's not fair! " Charlotte said." I thought you were a grown lady -- you know life is neither fair nor kind. Michaela MacColl
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The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf. Aleksandar Hemon
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It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong. Jim Butcher
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Fairness is one of the most significant traits in wisdom, the fairer you are, the wiser you become. Pearl Zhu
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Fairness is not about statistical equality. John Bercow
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Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent. Nina Easton
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The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society. Mike Lowry