A Quote by Rick Riordan

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

Rick Riordan

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Rick Riordan
American - Author
Born: June 5, 1964

Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

Rick Riordan

Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others.

Thomas Sowell

Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies.

Moby

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

Mike Honda

Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies. You’re at the Aspen Ideas Fest, and you have these really smart, really accomplished people who pretend like they’ve somehow figured out a way to bypass the human condition. We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human.

Moby

I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules.

Barack Obama

I cannot guarantee people absolute fairness. I can only promise that I will do everything in my power to secure fairness or create a greater degree of fairness.

Martin Schulz

We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.

Charlize Theron

Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike.

John Wooden

Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same.

Barbara Jordan

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.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.

Fran Lebowitz

You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

Sal Albanese

Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you've done to other people.

Marina and the Diamonds

There are daily stresses on the road, but when everyone gets fed, everyone gets happy. Simple.

Grace Potter

That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

Eric Schneiderman

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