Seneca the Younger Quotes

Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

The greatest respect you can give your political adversaries is to give them your undivided attention. If you want them to hear you, you have to be willing to hear them.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.

Wouldn't it be great if we just ended up tied? I think it would be beautiful.

In order to establish peace, you must have fair justice for everyone.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great.

I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another.

Tact, respect, and generosity toward variant views will always commend themselves to those charged with the duties of legislation so as to achieve a maximum of good will and to require a minimum of unwilling submission to a general law.

Put people first.

One’s right cancels out another’s right.

He who seeks equity must do equity

Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.

In order to have a large number of values in common, all members of the group must have an equitable opportunity to receive and to take from others. Members must be able to accept each other’s ideas and must be able to compromise. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences … educate some into masters, educate others into slaves.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

If democracy is to be an articulation of mutual respect, a leader in a democracy leads by showing respect to all.

Peace has to be solved equally.

We want to strike the right balance between the governments and our users. If there are concerns, we can work together.

We have to ensure that everybody's voice is heard equally, or nobody's will be.

I've always been treated as an equal.