Fairness Quotes - Page 20

• Integrity has no need of rules.

  Albert Camus

  Honesty, Integrity, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.66, Vintage

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• When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Husband, Father

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.92, A&C Black

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• We have a choice. We can seek for the bad in others. Or we can make peace and work to extend to others the understanding, fairness, and forgiveness we so desperately desire for ourselves. It is our choice; for whatever we seek, that we will certainly find.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Choices, Understanding, Desire

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• Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, People, Risk

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• If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Life, Clever

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• For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.

  Arthur Golden

  Daughter, Kindness, Father

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.110, Random House

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• Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

  Haruki Murakami

  Like Love, Missing, Phases

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 16, 2016

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• He was too good to be
  Where ill men were, and was the best of all
  Amongst the rar'st of good ones- sitting sadly
  Hearing us praise our loves of Italy
  For beauty that made barren the swell'd boast
  Of him that best could speak; for feature, laming
  The shrine of Venus or straight-pight Minerva,
  Postures beyond brief nature; for condition,
  A shop of all the qualities that man
  Loves woman for; besides that hook of wiving,
  Fairness which strikes the eye-
  CYMBELINE.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Quality

  William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare”, p.678

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• There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.

  Conrad Black

  Believe, Essence, Government

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• I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

  Studs Terkel

  Years, Down And, Littles

  "Give 'Em Hell, Mr. Terkel" by Amy Goodman on AlterNet, May 16, 2007.

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• I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn.

  Gordon Brown

  Country, People, Tolerance

  "Reality TV Racism Row Grips Viewers". uk.reuters.com. January 19, 2007.

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• Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.

  Anne Campbell

  Country, Equality, Choices

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• Fair words never hurt the tongue.

  George Chapman

  Hurt, Tongue, Fairs

  Ben Jonson, George Chapman, John Marston (2014). “Eastward Ho!”, p.84, A&C Black

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• Where terrorists offer injustice, disorder and destruction, the United States and its allies stand for freedom, fairness, equality, hope, and opportunity.

  John O. Brennan

  Opportunity, Allies, United States

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates - or perhaps any taxes at all. What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about 'fairness' is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources.

  Thomas Sowell

  Heart, Winning, Class

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• Rest you fair, good signior;
  Your worship was the last man in our mouths.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Mouths, Lasts

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.170

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• you saw her fair, none else being by,
  Herself pois'd with herself in either eye;
  But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd
  Your lady's love against some other maid
  That I will show you shining at this feast,
  And she shall scant show well that now seems best.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Shining, Maids

  William Shakespeare (1793). “King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet”, p.354

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• Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]

  Christian Karembeu

  Issues, Penalties

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• This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

  Gordon Brown

  Children, Britain, Secure

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• Every work of art is about everything.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Art Is, Works Of Art

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• Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Originality, Charm

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• Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Soothing, Surprising

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• The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.

  Joan Didion

  Mean, Thinking, Practice

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 25, 2011

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• I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.

  George Voinovich

  Doctrine

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• Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

  Earl Warren

  Inspiration, Justice, Excellence

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