Fairness Quotes - page 2

The fundamental mistake I had always made-and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make-was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. (John Green (author))
Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need. View quote
Rick Riordan
Many of the criticisms of capitalism advanced by socialists were essentially correct. Capitalism is persistently at odds with values of equity, fairness, political equality among all citizens, and democracy. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. View quote
Thurgood Marshall
I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization. View quote
Byron Dorgan
It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right. View quote
David Plouffe
I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty. View quote
Esha Gupta
It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs. View quote
Jane Wiedlin
Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer. View quote
Jim Bridenstine
If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention. View quote
Larry Sabato
My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone. (Michael M. Honda)
Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that. View quote
Mike Lowry
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world. View quote
Morris Dees
To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America. View quote
Peter Munk
Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue. View quote
Rosa DeLauro
This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness. View quote
Star Jones
Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead. View quote
Tim Huelskamp
I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person. View quote
Yingluck Shinawatra
There is a need to renew our economic institutions and the principles which guide them. Parts of the financial sector, we now know, were run on a false prospectus. With the rewards to some individuals completely divorced from basic ideas of fairness, or service. And, as it transpires, sadly those rewards were also divorced from any reasonable notion of lasting value. That could not be sustained. And it was not sustained. View quote
Alex Salmond
We aspire to a new world order, one based on justice, fairness and peace; one that will replace the unjust and unequal system of prevailing today, in which, as the final summit declaration states: "Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few powers whose wasteful economies are maintained by the exploitation of workers as well as by the transfer and plunder of of the natural and other resources of the peoples of Africa, Latin America, Asia and other regions of the world." View quote
Fidel Castro
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can. (Michael Pollan)
Dumping is the exporting to this country of goods from a foreign land under the cost-beneath the price at which they are sold in their own country. There could be only one object in doing that, and that is to make war upon a particular industry in our country. That is unfair. ... In the interests of fairness, as well as in the interests of British industry as a whole, the Government have decided to submit to Parliament proposals which will effectively deal with dumping in the sense in which I have defined it. View quote
David Lloyd George
Keynes didn't make an all-out assault on Economic Man, but he often resorted to plausible psychological theorizing rather than careful analysis of what a rational decision-maker would do. Business decisions were driven by "animal spirits,” consumer decisions by a psychological tendency to spend some but not all of any increase in income, wage settlements by a sense of fairness, and so on. But was it really a good idea to diminish the role of Economic Man that much? No, said Friedman, who argued in his 1953 essay "The Methodology of Positive Economics” that economic theories should be judged not by their psychological realism but by their ability to predict behavior. And Friedman's two greatest triumphs as an economic theorist came from applying the hypothesis of rational behavior to questions other economists had thought beyond its reach. View quote
Paul Krugman
I ask anyone to point to any territorial change we made in respect to Germany in Europe which is in the least an injustice, judged by any principle of fairness. View quote
David Lloyd George
Fairness is what justice really is. View quote
Potter Stewart