Best justice & fairness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for the perfect city and the perfect government in the perfect country with perfect people, just wait a little while longer - it's coming”

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Author:David Berg

“I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.”

Ifs Shows Justice Rely Fairness

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“Justice as fairness provides what we want.”

Want Justice Fairness

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.”

Feelings Justice Opinion Support Theory Tendencies Outcomes Fairness Primacy

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“Justice delayed is justice denied.”

Law Justice Owners Denied Fairness Delayed Justice Denied

Author:William E. Gladstone

“Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?”

Knows Men Want Can Do Born Justice Ethics My Friends Every Man Optimistic Fairness Something Better Considerate Be Considerate Considerate And Caring

Author:Maxim Gorky

“The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.”

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Author:Nick Clegg

“May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?”

May Justice Claims Hearing Fairness

Book:The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates

Source: The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates

“Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.”

“Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.”

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Author:Benjamin Cardozo

“Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.”

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Author:Isaiah Berlin

“The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement. [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.”

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Author:Ai Weiwei

“Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.”

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Author:Earl Warren

“People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.”

People World Persons Play Moving Differences Justice United Roles Greater Unique Overcoming Folks Fairness Folk Music

Author:Peter Yarrow

“Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.”

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Author:Bryan Stevenson

“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”

Ifs Justice Fairness Criminal Justice

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author

“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

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