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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, the...

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ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two...

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

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Bill WattersonThe Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not wa...

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The demand for equality has two sources; one of them is among the noblest, the other is the basest, ...

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My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive. In the little world in which children have their exis...

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Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.

The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities ...

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

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find ...

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I nodded, unsure if Ted sounded admiring or angry. 'I waded in but I couldn't find him. I mean, is i...

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

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness w...

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But the vicar of St. Botolph's had certainly escaped the slightest tincture of the Pharisee, and by ...

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And suddenly he became almost lyric. "For three thousand years the Common Man has been fended off fr...

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Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to ...

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No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to reb...

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It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared o...

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Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone h...

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But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?...

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First: each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive liberty compatible with similar l...

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Everyone cares about fairness, but there are two major kinds. On the left, fairness often implies eq...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality ...

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I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the...

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Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept auth...

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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or u...

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In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one q...

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Jill had three basic statements about life,1. It is your life, usually with some added social commen...

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If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are gett...

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...I realized that my father, of all these men, was the most obstinate, helplessly bonded to his bet...

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Fairness is what justice really is.

The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one. ...

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

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

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Shane ClaiborneThe Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, an...

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Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government a...

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Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, th...

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In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thoug...

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ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War

And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We m...

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What's fair ain't necessarily right.

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

The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless,...

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Listen, Monsieur Director, here's what I think. Obviously this is wrong. There are twenty-six of you...

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There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of t...

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