#fairness

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get. ↗

— Robert Buettner

#fighting #human-nature #human-superiority #humanity #unfairness

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#good-will #patience #science

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it. ↗

— Thucydides

#elections #fairness #losing #office #democracy

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#goodness #justice #justice

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#deceit #defenselessness #double-standards #falsehood #hypocrisy

How do you measure someone’s life? By the scope of their accomplishments, or the number of people they’ve touched, or by the width of a hand? None of it seemed fair. None of it seemed like enough. ↗

— Yvonne Woon

#life #beauty

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

#characterized #convict #corrupt #else #embittered

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

#fairness #family #field #income #issue

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

#cooperation #dawn #emergency #eternal #eternal peace

And 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

#debt #economy #fairness #future #grow