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Fairness is what justice really is. -- Potter Stewart
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. -- Brit Hume
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us. -- Barbara Boxer
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world. -- Morris Dees
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism. -- Kate Adie
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can. -- Michael Pollan
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. -- Anton Chekhov
Fairness is not about statistical equality. -- John Bercow
Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism. -- Charles Krauthammer
Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; -- Felix Rohatyn
I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is. -- George Voinovich
Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking] -- Christian Karembeu
Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices. -- Wes Fesler
Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need. -- Rick Riordan
The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society. -- Mike Lowry
Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do. -- Mitt Romney
Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike. -- John Wooden
Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you. -- Kellyanne Conway
Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same. -- Barbara Jordan
Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man -- Mitch Albom
Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead. -- Tim Huelskamp
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings. -- Erich Fromm
Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself. -- Rick Riordan
Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do. -- Judith Martin
Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer. -- Jim Bridenstine
Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work. -- Felix Rohatyn
Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins. -- Andy Stanley
To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America. -- Peter Munk
Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about [every] issue.... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up. -- Rush Limbaugh
Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that. -- Mike Lowry
Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality. -- Gary Bauer
'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality. -- Gary Bauer
Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others. -- Thomas Sowell
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...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
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not. -- Michael Pollan
I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable. -- Paul Scofield
No matter who or what you support, I believe in supporting fairness first. -- Jennette McCurdy
I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty. -- Esha Gupta
Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do. -- Lewis B. Smedes
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. -- Edmund Burke
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. -- Mark Twain
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. -- Oscar Wilde
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children. -- Marian Wright Edelman
I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth. -- H. L. Mencken
It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs. -- Jane Wiedlin
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
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. -- Abraham Lincoln
In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . . -- William J. Clinton
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats. -- Jeffrey Kluger
This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness. -- Star Jones
Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue. -- Rosa DeLauro
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. -- Thurgood Marshall
For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff. -- Addison Wiggin
I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization. -- Byron Dorgan
Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing. -- Josh Homme
I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. -- E. O. Wilson
When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness. -- Jonathan Maberry
Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end. -- E. O. Wilson
We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism. -- Jodi Rell
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. -- Brian Eno
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice. -- Malcolm Gladwell
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious. -- Marian Keyes
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
It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits. -- Iain Duncan Smith
The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go. -- Shilpa Shetty
TRUST AND FAIRNESS DEVELOP HARMONY -- Miguel Reynolds Brandao
Justice as fairness provides what we want. -- John Rawls
The question of societal fairness is always pertinent. -- Martin Schulz
There is balance in life, but not fairness. -- Shirley Hazzard
Rely on facts, figures, principles of equality and fairness. -- Steven Petrow
The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality. -- Judith Martin
Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. -- Bill Gates
Nature is not concerned about fairness, it only interested in efficiency. -- Amish Tripathi
There is no true peace without fairness , truth , justice and solidarity . -- Pope John Paul II
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not -- Michael Pollan
If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back. -- Arnold Palmer
Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness. -- Emma Goldman
To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness. -- James Cook
Love is like life with or without justice, with or without fairness. -- Fadi Hattendorf
I don't believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness. -- Margot Adler
Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth. -- Rush Limbaugh
I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness. -- Park Geun-hye
Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary. -- Eli Siegel
I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor. -- L. Todd Rose
Integrity, respect, compassion, and fairness become obstacles to people who think winning is everything -- Michael Josephson
Ensuring fairness in the American workplace should be a cornerstone of our economic policy. -- Tim Scott
Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity. -- Rush Limbaugh
All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice. -- George W. Bush
Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people. -- Al Green
Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system. -- Hillary Clinton
Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness - give me truth. -- Emile Hirsch
As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness. -- Leo Hindery
If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society -- Sunday Adelaja
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Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent. -- Nina Easton
But in fairness also to the idea of continuing success, you also have to exploit opportunities. -- Bob Cousy
Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment. -- William J. Clinton
Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues -- Jim Hightower
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. -- Isaiah Berlin
Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. -- Ronald Reagan
I understand the demands for justice and fairness made by the L.G.B.T. community. -- Jeff Sessions
A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state. -- Sophocles
Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care -- Gordon Brown
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. -- James Q. Wilson
I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech. -- Teresa Heinz
This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child -- Gordon Brown
Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility. -- Dick Morris
If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone. -- Arthur C. Brooks
It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail. -- Tim Powers
It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness. -- Peter Jackson
In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton I want you to be very happy. It's very important to me. -- Donald Trump
As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter. -- Anderson Cooper
I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness. -- Stephen A. Schwarzman

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