Fairness Quotes - Page 5

When you start to meet with ordinary people you understand that a Russian person, really any person from Russia, a Tatar, a Mordvin, a Chechen, a Dagestani, they are very open people, even a little naive. But there's one defining trait that probably all peoples have, although it comes out especially strongly in us. That's a drive toward fairness. It's one of the dominating, I think, traits in the mentality of a person from Russia, a Russian person.

Rely on facts, figures, principles of equality and fairness.

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity.

It still boils down to one thing: The left cannot beat Fox News in the arena of cable news. The media, the left cannot beat Fox News. The only option they have is to destroy it. Because they can't outcompete it as is evidenced by ratings day in and day out since 1996, when Fox debuted. The standard operating procedure for the left is not to level the playing field but to close it. It's to deny participation on the playing field, not level it. No tolerance. No fairness.

One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions - what has come to be known as a Robin Hood Tax. This tax would raise the costs of short-term speculative trading and therefore discourage speculation. At the same time, the tax will not discourage "patient" investors who intend to hold their assets for longer time periods, since, unlike the speculators, they will be trading infrequently.

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.

Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have never had sex outside of marriage and never lied about their sex lives either denying or exaggerating!

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.

One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions.

Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

I don’t believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness.

Life's not fair; why should I be?

As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

The sense of loss of control over what happens to you at work (and thus in your life is vital). This further involves a sense of fairness as in, I did my part and look where it got me! "The deal," the contract between employee and employer has eroded and been replaced with unilateral power by the organization over the employee.

As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.

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

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.

Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system.

Fair words gladden so many a heart.