Quotes by category:Fairness

Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have never had sex outside of marriage and never lied about their sex lives either denying or exaggerating!

Patricia Ireland

fairness issues sex

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

Paul Scofield

taste-in-music fairness add

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

Pope John Paul II

fairness justice peace

Fairness is what justice really is.

Potter Stewart

fairness justice

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

Rob Bell

maintaining fairness weight

Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.

Rick Riordan

fairness duty mother

One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions - what has come to be known as a Robin Hood Tax. This tax would raise the costs of short-term speculative trading and therefore discourage speculation. At the same time, the tax will not discourage "patient" investors who intend to hold their assets for longer time periods, since, unlike the speculators, they will be trading infrequently.

Robert Pollin

fairness financial patient

Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity.

Rush Limbaugh

fairness misery opportunity

It still boils down to one thing: The left cannot beat Fox News in the arena of cable news. The media, the left cannot beat Fox News. The only option they have is to destroy it. Because they can't outcompete it as is evidenced by ratings day in and day out since 1996, when Fox debuted. The standard operating procedure for the left is not to level the playing field but to close it. It's to deny participation on the playing field, not level it. No tolerance. No fairness.

Rush Limbaugh

participation fairness tolerance

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

Samuel Johnson

fairness

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

Shirley Hazzard

life-balance fairness balance

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

naive fairs fairness

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

Sophocles

fairness justice men

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

Steven Petrow

fairness principles facts

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Sue Monk Kidd

fairness might world

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

Terry Eagleton

fairness humanity justice

It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail.

Tim Powers

fairs fairness mail

Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

Tim Scott

economic fairness workplace

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Ulpian

fairness justice men

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

Victor Hugo

fairness difficult easy