fairness Quotes

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.