Quotes about Fairness
Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
— Thomas Jefferson
Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
— George Washington
The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.
— George Washington
If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.
— George W. Bush
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
— Henry David Thoreau
The person with the question needed something and they got it. The person with the answer was doing something else and had to stop. That's rarely a fair trade.
— Jason Fried
By the same token, as a remote worker, you shouldn't let employers get away with paying you less just because you live in a cheaper city. "Equal pay for equal work" might be a dusty slogan, but it works for a reason. If with regard to compensation you accept being treated as a second-class worker based on location, you're opening the door to being treated poorly on other matters as well.
— Jason Fried
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.
— Edmund Burke
I'm against exclusion of any kind - whether that's restricting people from Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. or kicking merchants off our platform if they're operating within the law.
— Tobias Lutke