Top 520 Fairness Quotes & Sayings

Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]

Fairness is what justice really is.

We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people - this is our characteristic. There's not a strand of equity and fairness in Europe - they're out to get as much as they can. That's one of those enormous differences. So I tackled it on that basis.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored - indeed, I have struggled - along with a majority of this Court, to develop procedural and substantive rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavor. Rather than continue to coddle the Court's delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

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.

Inclusiveness is about freedom and fairness.

Isn't protecting our legal citizens from an invading army of illegal aliens who are using our services and taking our jobs, isn't that a basic notion of fairness? Isn't that in the Constitution? Where is the fairness to American citizens here?

Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples.

I think the notion of tax fairness is the reasonable thing to do.

The basis of my politics is, first of all, fairness and honesty.

Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

No matter who or what you support, I believe in supporting fairness first.

To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.

President Trump insists on fairness and reciprocity in U.S.-China relations.

The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of people, and I cannot imagine who has the right to speak on their behalf using a "public" voice. If the multiplicity of the environment is its true nature, then my works defend this truthfulness. The greatest fairness in society is to defend the difference between each individual - the fairness and truthfulness of their inconsistency and differentiation.

Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

Rely on facts, figures, principles of equality and fairness.

As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

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

The question of societal fairness is always pertinent.

We can demonstrate to the world that the U.K. remains a beacon for opportunity, fairness, and democratic leadership.

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.

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.

Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.

My young friends, I look forward to you as the real makers of Pakistan, do not be exploited and do not be misled. Create amongst yourselves complete unity and solidarity. Set an example of what youth can do. Your main occupation should be in fairness to yourself, to your parents, in fairness to the State, to devote your attention to your studies. If you fritter away your energies now, you will always regret.

I've been an activist all my life. And always a liberal activist, for the simple reason that it is on the liberal left that you find the true recognition for the need for fairness in society. I'm not saying equality, because that you can never achieve, because equality is based on such complex criteria. But fairness is another issue.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.

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

If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back.

Fairness is really important to me.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice.

I have always believed that genuine democracy is fairness.

Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency.

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not

Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

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

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

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

As Democrats, we believe in fairness and opportunity.

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

I understand the demands for justice and fairness made by the L.G.B.T. community.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

There is no fairness out there. There is no balance in the media.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

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.

If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.

Markets are a good thing, and they are the best way of ensuring we have fairness.

Fairness matters.

There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.