Fairness in Society Quotes

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

It would, I think, be hard for anyone to make the case that the United States is a just society or anything close to a just society. In America today, there is massive injustice in terms of income and wealth inequality. Injustice is rampant.

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

Equality is not possible. The pursuit of equality, however, people really love that. For some reason, people attach the most wonderful of motives to people who say they see all this inequality out there and need to fix it. It's just not fair. You'll hear it manifest itself in discussions about the so-called widening gap between the rich and the poor or the widening gap between men and women. It's like actually two twin beds.

Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fair. To get rid of the unfairness among individuals, you have to exercise power over them. The more fairness you want, the more power you need. Thus, all dreams of fairness become dreams of tyranny in the end.

If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicized so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy. A lot of fiction comes out of a child's feeling of, "Hey, that's not fair."

In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.