Quotes about Fairness

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an impassioned advocate of economic justice as well as social justice.

The efficient leader leads by encouraging, and not by trying to instil fear in the hearts of his followers. The leader who tries to impress his followers with his "authority" comes within the category of leadership through force. If a leader is a real leader, he will have no need to advertise that fact except by his conduct— his sympathy, understanding, fairness, and a demonstration that he knows his job.

We can't allow ourselves to get lost in the past or the future. We are there for the food and our food is there for us; it is only fair. Eat in mindfulness and you will be worthy of the Earth and the sky.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.