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| Fairness Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds. | Dickens | Charles |
| 2 | If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking Do you want fries with that? | Cleese | John |
| 3 | For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. | Keynes | John |
| 4 | Dad: The world isn't fair, Calvin. Calvin: I know, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor? | Calvin and Hobbes | |
| 5 | The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair. | Churchill | Winston |
| 6 | Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and Morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it? | Washington | George |
| 7 | For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. | Keynes | John |
| 8 | The only other instance of judicial iniquity, the mention of which, after the condemnation of Socrates, would not be an anti-climax: the event which took place on Calvary rather more than eighteen hundred years ago. The man who left on the memory of those | Mill | John |
| 9 | 'My brother ought not to have treated me thus.' True: but he must see to that. However he may treat me, I must deal rightly by him. This is what lies with me, what none can hinder. (97) | Epictetus | |
| 10 | I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. Source: Education and the Social Or | Russell | Bertrand |
| 11 quotations on Fairness |

