Fairness Quotes - Page 13

• The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.

  Robert Cheeke

  Fairness And Equality, Support, Way To Live

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.33, Book Publishing Company

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• fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

  Agnes Repplier

  Play, Groups, Individual

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Encouragement, Passion, Garden

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.334

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• I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent a powerful message: We are not the evil ones. We are reasonable and compassionate. We stand for fairness, structure, and organization. It’s the other side, the uncureds, who bring the chaos.

  Lauren Oliver

  Powerful, Organization, People

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.

  William Shakespeare

  Charity, Holy, Colour

  William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.29

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• Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Peers, Done

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.786, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We can only save ourselves through elevating our individual consciousness, by realizing there is already completeness within, and exercising as much considerate independence, respect and fairness as is possible.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Exercise, Independence, Realizing

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• Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Pain, Justice, Suffering

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• Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone.

  William Shakespeare

  Kind, Fairs

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.72

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• Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy.

  Tim Scott

  Workplace, Economic, Should

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• I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Believe, Thinking, Two Sides

  "TV’s Best Talker: Aaron Sorkin on The Newsroom, Sorkinism, and Sounding Smart". Interview with Mark Harris, www.vulture.com. June 16, 2012.

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• Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.

  Alexis Herman

  Smart, Workplace, Inclusion

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• I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.

  Esha Gupta

  Believe, Natural, Cream

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• Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, Thinking, Wings

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• I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Hate, Integrity

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.6

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• Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Duty, Frank

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• Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles.

  Sean Covey

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Gratitude

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  Earl Warren

  Law, Justice, Legal System

  Earl Warren (1955). “The Law and the Future”

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• In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.

  Patrick Leahy

  Views, Long, Waiting

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• Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

  Dennis Wholey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline, and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don't win, how can you lose?

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Compassion, Justice, Coins

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.119, Beacon Press

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• Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue to discourage illegal immigration for it undermines control of our borders...and even more punishes hard-working people who play by the rules and who wait for their turn to come to the United States. Therefore we must enforce our laws, but we will do so with justice and fairness.

  William J. Clinton

  Hard Work, Law, Play

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• It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

  Arthur H. Vandenberg

  Change, Wisdom, Opportunity

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• Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Success, Truth, Compassion

  Doris Haddock, Dennis Burke (2001). “Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year”, p.363, Villard

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