Fairness Quotes - Page 8

• I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.

  Jeff Sessions

  Jobs, Integrity, Rights

  "Jeff Sessions Previously Denied Federal Judgeship Amid Racism Controversy". Interview with Nina Totenberg, wxxinews.org. January 9, 2017.

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• When I talk to different lawmakers, I'm trying to get them to reach across the aisle. There's legislation out there that would be helpful for women and families, but like with the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation has been on the floor many times, and voted down many times. It's something we need to get passed already.

  Patricia Arquette

  Trying, Different, Would Be

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I cannot guarantee people absolute fairness. I can only promise that I will do everything in my power to secure fairness or create a greater degree of fairness.

  Martin Schulz

  People, Promise, Degrees

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In America, we had a totally divided country for eight years and long before that. In all fairness to President Obama, long before President Obama we have had a very divided - I didn't come along and divide this country. This country was seriously divided before I got here.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Eight, Years

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

  James Q. Wilson

  Inspirational, Self, People

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• A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Whales, People, Greed

  Kurt Vonnegut's address to the graduating class at Bennington College, 1970.

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• Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

  Sophocles

  Honesty, Integrity, Honor

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• Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Garden, Growth

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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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• We know there's a clear gap in fairness. There just is in equity. In a lot of ways, economically, racially, blah, blah, blah. It just is. Not blaming anybody, it just is. So then you say, that can be interpreted and misinterpreted and used by a lot of different people. Some people run for office; some people try to gain influence. I generally believe all that's true. It's just, which one is the person who is accurately turning that dial and which one is using it as bullshit and lies? So, this is a tricky area to step into.

  Michael Keaton

  Running, Lying, Believe

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• I know the way, what I have to walk. I know the spiritual power, world-creating energy, what I have to lay its account with. There's no doubt: we come out into a better still world part and we will be delighted in unfailing fairnesses.

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Spiritual, Creating, Doubt

  "The Otherworld". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary,

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• The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Europe, Justice

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• The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of people, and I cannot imagine who has the right to speak on their behalf using a "public" voice. If the multiplicity of the environment is its true nature, then my works defend this truthfulness. The greatest fairness in society is to defend the difference between each individual - the fairness and truthfulness of their inconsistency and differentiation.

  Wang Jianwei

  People, Speak, Environment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.

  Iamblichus

  Numbers, Perfection, Special

  "The Theology of Arithmetic". Translated by Robin Waterfield in "The Theology of Arithmetic: On the Mystical, Mathematical and Cosmological Symbolism of the First Ten Numbers", 1988.

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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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• 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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• Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Fairness And Equality, Justice, Liberty

  'Two Concepts of Liberty' (1958) p. 10

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• Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Kindness, Compassion, Equality

  Entry of December 1863 or early 1864, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Humphry Ward, 1893.

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• Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to - no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Religion, Balance, Wheels

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Confidence, Skills

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• It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

  Oscar Arias

  Revenge, Confused, Two

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• Public attitudes follow real life experience, and as marriage equality has spread to more communities, Americans have seen more freedom, stronger families, more protection for children and more fairness.

  Ken Mehlman

  Life, Children, Attitude

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