Fairness Quotes - Page 10

• Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

  Ken Auletta

  Objectivity, Strive, Should

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• Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a discussion of Benny Goodman but all of them are connected to his overwhelming affection for the art of the music and the fairness it should be allowed to express.

  Stanley Crouch

  Art, Player, Ethnicity

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• We hear a lot about the notion of objectivity, and I'm not sure I know what that is. I know what fairness is. I know what honesty is. And I know what the heart and emotions are. I think those are the things I particularly want to embrace. I would not want anyone to take away my right and my ability to communicate my feelings about the things that I see.

  Peter Turnley

  Honesty, Heart, Thinking

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• 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

  Sex, Issues, Vote

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• That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book

  Sheri Fink

  Book, Objectivity, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Anger is about fairness. If it feels that you're getting ripped off or taken advantage of, that's when anger comes up. Sadness deals with loss. And I suddenly had this new revelation - it felt like to me - that those are all true, but the real, deeper reason we have emotions is to connect us together. And that felt big to me.

  Pete Docter

  Real, Taken, Sadness

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• I've talked about how the future of journalism will be a hybrid future where traditional media players embrace the ways of new media (including transparency, interactivity, and immediacy) and new media companies adopt the best practices of old media (including fairness, accuracy, and high-impact investigative journalism).

  Arianna Huffington

  Believe, Player, Impact

  "Huffington hits out at Murdoch speech" by Mercedes Bunz, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2009.

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• Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Break Through, Done

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• After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question....Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been...As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Mistake, Unity

  "Calgary Sun" Newspaper, May 6, 2001.

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• Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Home

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.124, Knopf

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• In fact the Hillary [Clinton] convention which did very well but not nearly as well as mine, in all fairness, would've gotten one-third the ratings they got if I weren't.

  Donald Trump

  Facts, Clinton, Rating

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Weight, Maintaining, Hebrew

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

  Tim Powers

  Mail, Fairs

  "Last Call". Book by Tim Powers, April 1992.

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• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest, intensest blue that I can contrive, and by this simple combination of the bright head against the rich blue background, I get a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Simple, Pale Yellow

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out their feelings about gays and lesbians. The trajectory is undeniable. The trend line is clear. And the choice before the justices is whether to be handmaidens to history, or whether to sit it out.

  Frank Bruni

  Gay, Justice, Choices

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• Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and triviality; they cripple man, and all factors that make man into a psychic cripple turn him also into a sadist or a destroyer.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Men, Psychics

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• If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

  Frans de Waal

  Motivation, Inspiration, Compassion

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• As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.

  Ben Bradlee

  Running, Jobs, Lying

  "Stamina, bravery, brilliance - the great Ben Bradlee had it all" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2014.

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• Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Inspirational, Education, Strong

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• In a Trump administration we're going to go about creating a new relationship between our two countries [U.S and Mexico], but it's going to be a fair relationship. We want fairness.

  Donald Trump

  Country, New Relationship, Two

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech" by Travis Dove, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Anger, Men, Wrath

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• In fairness to the [Donald] Trump people, if you look at the most recent numbers, they're actually doing well in Ohio, winning, winning in a lot of polls in Florida, and now Pennsylvania and Michigan have both tightened. They're not ahead, but they have tightened. And that's a good trend.

  John Brabender

  Winning, Florida, Ohio

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, when she started talking about this, it was really very recently. She's been doing this for 30 years. And why hasn't she made the [trade] agreements better? The NAFTA agreement is defective.

  Donald Trump

  Agreement, Talking, Years

  Donald Trump's speech at the first Trump-Clinton presidential debate hosted by NBC News' anchor Lester Holt at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

  Park Geun-hye

  Division, Conflict, Ends

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• Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.

  John Gierach

  Life, Ideas, Big Fish

  John Gierach (2001). “Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders: A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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