Fair Quotes
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In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.
John Stuart Mill -
I'll get arrested. Whatever happens to me, fair enough. I think about the next one I'm going to do. But I just want people to laugh.
J. M. Roberts
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A bevy of fair women.
John Milton -
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.
Blaise Pascal -
Then he looked by him, and was ware of a damsel that came riding as fast as her horse might gallop upon a fair palfrey. And when she espied that Sir Lanceor was slain, then she made sorrow out of measure, and said, O Balin ! two bodies hast thou slain and one heart, and two hearts in one body, and two souls thou hast lost.
Thomas Malory -
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
Homer -
For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
Bram Stoker -
It's not fair, but it's not entirely wrong to presume that the more capable people will come from the better brand.
David F. D'Alessandro
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Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.
Eric Holder -
It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things.
Dante Alighieri -
Fair and softly goes far.
Miguel de Cervantes -
We are not going to compete for programs where we do not believe we can get a fair and sufficient return.
Phebe Novakovic -
I would think that would be a fair representation.
J. M. Roberts -
We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.
Ray Blanton
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“Fair is the stick by which parents of more than one child are driven.”
Gabrielle Burton -
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
Miguel de Cervantes -
When somebody says, 'I don't like your cover'... that's fair enough, but then this person has just written to me and said that they've come out to their family because of my interpretation. So I've got to balance everything. And yeah... that warms my heart.
Anzia Yezierska -
The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
Tony Abbott -
Even if it goes against us, I told the official, I thought it was fair.
Bob Stoops -
Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.
Honore de Balzac
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For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.
Plato -
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
Moliere -
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
Benjamin Carson -
Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.
Edgar Hilsenrath