In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you’ve heard the other side.

If life was fair … one third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers … one third of police and prison officials … and one third of legislators … and one third more...

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel’s plea, ‘My forbears did the same.

50 bucks sounds fair to me. Especially since I’m not doing anything to earn it.

This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain the traumatic kernel at the heart of allegations of organised abuse. In his...

Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the “reasonable person” standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform principle is almost synonymous with fairness. Uniform application of a detailed...

The world isn’t fair, Calvin.””I know Dad, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?

…We had spiritually marked ourselves. This marking began…when the counterculture of political correctness began, and the assault on Christian values and traditions began. At first it seemed so ridiculous that it was harmless, kind of...

Jill had three basic statements about life,1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.3. No one ever said that...

Bring to the table what you want to take away from the table!

But the vicar of St. Botolph’s had certainly escaped the slightest tincture of the Pharisee, and by dint of admitting to himself that he was too much as other men were, he had become remarkably...

I know you kids are angry, because the world isn’t fair. Well, get over it, because it’s never going to be fair. The white boys have all the money and all the power and that’s...

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless in the principle of forgiveness to the powerful.

So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept authority when they see that it treats everyone equally, when it is possible to speak up and be heard, and...

But the distinction is important and must be made: the highest virtue is not to give or to take. It is to share. And what I didn’t understand most of my life is that sharing...

Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels.If you stand back far enough it looks good.Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all...

We can have traders, without them being traitors.We can trade, without trading others.We can trade our traits, and not our worst ones, with others.We can trade our traitors for better traders, or they can become...

Criminal justice” is what happens after a complicated series of events has gone bad. It is the end result of failure–the failure of a group of people that sometimes includes, but is never limited to,...

It is staggering how completely, fully and fairly life supports you if your negativity will allow the blessings to arrive.

A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes.

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I’ll stop saying, “It isn’t fair” about everything else.

Exploration is a dirty game.

Satire’s nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

We simply want fairness,

I don’t believe in the Law of Attraction. There were things I wanted in my life that no amount of positive thinking was going to make it a reality for me. However, I have learned...

Unfortunately Women these days, complain A LOT about “wanting” to be equal to men, and insist that they “are” equal to men. However, when it comes to paying the check at the restaurant, paying for...

I’m all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better...

Everyone Deserves An Equal Footing.

Love is like life with or without justice, with or without fairness.

In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of five, that would be more...

There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of this sort it behooves the woman, whatever her own occupation may be, to go to the...

I nodded, unsure if Ted sounded admiring or angry. ‘I waded in but I couldn’t find him. I mean, is it possible – the water wasn’t deep enough for him to drown. It doesn’t make...

,m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.

You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself.Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self.Know that the highest...

Fred’s there on the bench and ready to play. But in fairness to Gerald, who had a good game when he came off the bench on Sunday, it’s logical to give him a run out...

But don’t they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.””‘They?’ Who are ‘they?'””I don’t know. Just people.””That’s what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless....

I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.

You do not tell people to go fuck themselves and then later when you’re in trouble ask them to help you.

Because here’s the thing―we don’t give a shit about fairness here. We’re soldiers. Soldiers do not give the other guy a sporting chance. Soldiers shoot in the back, lay traps and ambushes, lie to the...

Equal time is not necessary when dealing with evil. Nazis do not merit equal or fair treatment.

Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.

We naturally think from our own perspective, from a point of view which tends to privilege our position. Fairness implies the treating of all relevant viewpoints alike without reference to one’s own feelings or interests....