Rick Riordan Quotes

Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

How do you make things fair?

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

I don't think anybody deserves anything than what they already have because I believe everyone gets what they deserve.

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

We have to take care of people on all sides. We need justice.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike.

Fairness is what justice really is.

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Justice is not a prize tendered to the good-natured, nor is it to be withheld from the ill-bred.

Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to every one his due.

You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike.

The Spartan principle of "calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal, just.

Fair means alone can produce fair results.