Fairness Quotes

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

Victor Hugo

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

Wes Fessler

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

Thomas Aquinas

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

Cicero

Fairness is what justice really is.

Potter Stewart

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

H Jackson Brown Jr

I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?

Bill Watterson

Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do.

Judith Martin

The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.

Charles Wagner

To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.

David Dudley Field

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another.

Thomas Paine

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Frances Wright

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Proverbs 31:9

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

Psalms 106:3

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

James 2:1-4

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

So the last shall be first, and the first last.

Matthew 20:16

A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Proverbs 16:11

For there is no respect of persons with God.

Romans 2:11

God is no respecter of persons.

Acts 10:34

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:28

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Micah 6:8

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Leviticus 19:15

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them

Matthew 7:12