#fairness

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#unfairness #equality

The true measure of a real man is that he has the ability to admit when he is wrong, apologize, and make amends to those he wronged ↗

— Richard Ashworth

#faith #inspirational #faith

How do you stop those who will stop at nothing? ↗

— Battle in Seattle Film

#fight #freedom #justice #freedom

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial. ↗

— David Gemmell

#justice #life #life

I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: Not Fair. And the only difference between us is Ricky's out there trying to get even. And he knows not trust anybody and he got it straight from me. And he knows not to try and get work, and guess where he got that. He walks around like there's loose boards in the floor, and you know who laid that floor, I did. ↗

— Marsha Norman

#life #trust #unfair #unfairness #unfairness-of-life

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

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

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

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people. ↗

— Al Green

#comes #fairness #i #obeying #people