Fairness Quotes - Page 6

• To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.

  James Cook

  People, Good Man, Bluntness

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• Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Class, Special

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• Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

  Freya Stark

  Influential, Unfair, Used

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• That's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, Opportunity, Roots

  "Elizabeth Warren Speech Text: Read The Democratic Candidate’s DNC Remarks", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

  Joel Osteen

  Art, School, Western Culture

  "Joel Osteen — Always Taking The High Road". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

  Joan Crawford

  Sometimes, Deals, Bottom

  Roy Newquist, Joan Crawford (1980). “Conversations with Joan Crawford”

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• In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

  Storm Jameson

  Grief, Loss, Thinking

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• On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!

  Ursula Bloom

  Life, Games, Umpires

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• As I hope
  For quiet days, fair issue, and long life,
  With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,
  The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion
  Our worser genius can, shall never melt
  Mine honour into lust, to take away
  The edge of that day's celebration,
  When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd
  Or Night kept chain'd below.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Night, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1844). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone : with a Life of the Poet”, p.13

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• "Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument,
  "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words;
  And in this change is my invention spent,
  Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

  William Shakespeare

  Three, Kind, Argument

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.299, Palgrave Macmillan

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• It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

  Oscar Wilde

  Apologizing, Modern, States

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Made, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. [182]

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• The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.

  Hugo Black

  Views, Justice, Judging

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• The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Country, Moving

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• Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

  Gordon Brown

  Government, Growth, Environmental

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• Fair words gladden so many a heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Fairs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.296

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• If you treat me fairly, I'll give you all my goods.

  Alicia Keys

  Giving, Treats, Goods

  Song: A Woman's Worth, Album: Songs in A Minor, 2001

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• Is she kind as she is fair?

  William Shakespeare

  Kind, Fairs

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

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• We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fairness And Equality, Justice, Inequality

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• I would say to the president: This is not about me. This is not about Republicans here in Congress. It's about fairness for the America people.

  John Boehner

  America, People, President

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• The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mean, Poverty, Enabling

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• Holy, fair, and wise is she;
  The heaven such grace did lend her,
  That she might admired be.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Heaven, Grace

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

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• Somehow it must be made plain that the lawyer's moral judgment is not for hire, that there are occasions when the lawyer . . . is under a duty to act as a person of independent ethical concern with obligations not only to his client's interests but also to fairness and justice in the management of affairs.

  Harry Jones

  Character, Independent, Justice

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• Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?

  William D. Cohan

  Jobs, People, Pay

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• Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

  Michael Short

  Leadership, Honesty, Integrity

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