fairness Quotes

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

An index is a great leveller.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.