Quotes About Unfairness

#1. 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.

Andrew Klavan

#2. Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

David Gemmell

#3. What could I say? ( ... ) That I wanted to scream at the unfairness of it all? ( ... ) Encouraging me the way he had, knowing that there was no new century for me, no new life for this girl.

Jacqueline Kelly

#4. Dread = Uncontrollability + Unfamiliarity + Imaginability + Suffering + Scale of Destruction + Unfairness

Amanda Ripley

#5. Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.

Nick Vujicic

#6. To those who would dominate you, knowledge must be crushed, because people who understand are people who will stand against the unfairness of the elite.

Terry Goodkind

#7. I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.

Ruth Rendell

#8. Complaining of unfairness is like assigning blame, Percy Jackson. It does no one any good.

Rick Riordan

#9. When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.

Bryan Stevenson

#10. Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls

Sloane Crosley

#11. We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

Barry Diller

#12. Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

Alexander Herzen

#13. It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within.

Archibald Marwizi

#14. There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.

Jack Layton

#15. A person who exchanged his reason for genius has no meaning. God is unfair, but only this unfairness is unacceptable. If you add genius as an advantage to madness as a disadvantage, you will get a maximum of disadvantage.

Tooru Hayama

#16. IN MOST FAMILIES, there is a favorite child. Parents deny it and maybe they truly don't see it, but it's obvious to the children. Unfairness bothers children greatly. It's hard to always come in second.

Karen Joy Fowler

#17. about everything, about the whole history of the world and all its racism and the unfairness of all of it.

Nicola Yoon

#18. I hate the world sometimes," Anthea said. "The unfairness of it. I won't force you to see me if you don't want to - but nobody can stop me loving you, and I'll wait for you all my life if I have to.

Kate Saunders

#19. He was surprised at how angry he sounded -no, how angry he felt. Because it was impossible. It was impossible and unfair, and he had spent too many years in the trenches of unfairness to get riled up about it now.

Marissa Meyer

#20. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Christopher Hitchens

#21. I'm suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts with 'step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,' especially if you can't do anything else until step one is done.

Cory Doctorow

#22. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?

Ruth Rendell

#23. Affirmative action is about fairness, for redressing widespread unfairness. Conservatives

George Lakoff

#24. The unfairness of judging others comes in that we judge them on the basis of our own values and beliefs, yet we can never exactly stand on common ground.

Archibald Marwizi

#25. The unfairness of your current status is unimportant. What matters is, can you do what you need to do? If

Augusten Burroughs

#26. On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.

Jessica Raine

#27. Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#28. Nikolai felt his heart breaking at the unfairness of a universe which let good people suffer while evildoers walked free and unpunished.

Adele Hamaludin

#29. Linked to frustration.
I SAW
Linked to unfairness.
WHAT YOU
Linked to guilt.
TO
Linked to helplessness.
HER
Hate.
Hate.
Hate.
DID
Linked to anger.

David Levithan

#30. they greet those who are cast down, and those in heart, those troubled adn those filled with desire, those who are overjoyed and those disconsolate, all lovers. may all herein find strength against inconstancy, against unfairness and despite and loss and pain and all the bitterness of loving.

Joseph Bedier

#31. From the time I was a little girl, I'd just always been naturally curious. And I was raised in a family that ... would just get really worked up about inequities and unfairness.

Cheri Bustos

#32. The first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

Mary Lee Settle

#33. Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#34. Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It's the Democrat Party.

Rush Limbaugh

#35. The failure so far of the governments of so many of the worlds most powerful countries in the face of such egregious unfairness ... to make the slightest progress on the issue of fair trade is hard to explain.

Colin Firth

#36. They'd dueled in the lamplight of her kitchen that night, savaging each other with accusations that could never be recalled. Now, he couldn't remember half of what they'd said, only the colors and lights and seething tide of fear all around them. He could still taste the acrid burn of unfairness.

Lauren Gilley

#37. Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies.

Israelmore Ayivor

#38. The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

Gaston Caperton

#39. You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

J. Michael Straczynski

#40. As all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in this and a certain unfairness even, which makes golf an even apter mirror of reality.

John Updike

#41. An inarticulate scream of rage strangled me. I wanted
to destroy something, to spend my anger against the unfairness of every thing. I wanted nothing more than to grapple with the Goblin King, to tear him from limb to limb, a Maenad against Orpheus. I tightened my hands into fists.

S. Jae-Jones

#42. Frustration is a sign that somewhere you took things too seriously. Unfairness

Chetan Bhagat

#43. Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.

David Levithan

#44. Surely you can see the failings of the system. Inequality, injustice, unfairness, and exploitation--

Allan Dare Pearce

#45. He had heard men talk of the unfairness of a death-bed repentance - as if it was an easy thing to break the habit of a life whether to do good or evil.

Graham Greene

#46. Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself ... one day it all works out.

Abraham Verghese

#47. A girl doesn't notice unfairness until she falls in love

Yoshiki Nakamura

#48. But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate.
Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.

Paulo Coelho

#49. His presence and testimony highlighted the unfairness of expecting an indigent defendant to get a fair trial without giving him access to forensic experts. Barney had requested such assistance months earlier, and Judge Jones had declined.

John Grisham

#50. We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

Rachel Griffiths

#51. I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

Ellie Kemper

#52. Complaining about the universe's unfairness is never part of a successful strategy.

Cory Doctorow

#53. And do whatever I can do to shield her from the unfairness of this evil, goddamned world

Colleen Hoover

#54. The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Nancy Mitford

#55. A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#56. Love lost by one moment's explicit unfairness can't be won back by trying to justify it

Lynne Reid Banks

#57. Life isn't fair. It doesn't make sense. This unfairness is felt by everyone, from the Las Vegas tunnel dweller all the way to the executive in the high-rise. To some, these "unfair" experiences become a chastening ball and chain attached for the remainder of life.

John-Talmage Mathis

#58. The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

Philip Yancey

#59. Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy ... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

Harold S. Kushner

#60. Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Mary Douglas

#61. It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.

Baden Powell De Aquino

#62. I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

John Green

#63. Rose spoke up softly beside me. 'It's how you handle the unfairness of life -that's what matters, I think.'...In this city of imprisonment, I had seen faith and optimism, strength and fortitude in the face of adversity.

Ann Howard Creel

#64. Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong - or fairness versus unfairness - that we are used to, we can compare the habit to distraction during meditation.

Sharon Salzberg

#65. The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

David A. Bednar

#66. It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#67. I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.

Terry O'Quinn

#68. They sought to take the unfairness out of existence, to remove the mistakes in the transmitted message of life which gave it any point or advancement ...

Iain M. Banks

#69. When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.

Philip Yancey

#70. The mythology warped and twisted back along itself until Buffy Summers, the girl who once railed against the unfairness of being Chosen, looked at a squadron of girls who were just like she'd been and took away their right to Choose.

Seanan McGuire

#71. When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.

Kathleen Hanna

#72. The child exasperated Marianne with her endless obsession with possession. She seemed to have absorbed the national sense of aggrievement, as if she, personally, were the victim of some great unfairness.

Jessica Shattuck

#73. Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

Neil Kinnock

#74. And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks

Tom Robbins

#75. Life is full of unfairness but you'll have to deal with it, as long as you're able to take a breath.

Auliq Ice

#76. Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

Thrity Umrigar

#77. Despite the obvious fault in the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best self. Instead, use unfairness as a starting point to be sure that your actions are the best you can muster, and find peace in navigating your time here with grace and humor whenever possible.

Valerie Plame

#78. When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.

Rachel Cohn

#79. When there is injustice someone should speak. When there is unfairness someone should act.
We cannot have liberty and justice for all if we only want it only for ourselves. We must serve God in humble righteousness.

Tom Krause

#80. It was hard to really hate someone so good-looking. That was just the unfairness of life.

Mia Sheridan

#81. I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#82. But Fate does iron wedges drive,
And always crowds itself betwixt.

Andrew Marvell

#83. It's the injustice that I hate, more than anything," he'd said to Smee one night, his eyes red and glassy, slurring his words, his head lolling as he tried to focus. He'd vomited, and then promptly passed out on a bush. "I hate the world that does not work out fair.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#84. Sometimes lightning struck twice; sometimes, one person got more than their share of suffering.

Rob Thomas

#85. I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.

Criss Jami

#86. I asked her who would teach me about life being unfair. She said time.

Yasmine El Rashidi

#87. One of the privileges of being an athlete is that on days when I have practice and games, I'm present whether I'm present or not. It's not fair, but that's the system. What can I do about it?

Erin O'Riordan

#88. Stand up for what is fair against the unfair.

Suzy Kassem

#89. Believing in your standards for a square deal, even when there's no way to get it, is what allows you to create boundaries and take independent action.

Michael I. Bennett

#90. The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

Robert Buettner

#91. I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

Sergio De La Pava

#92. So unfair, she thought. Her baby was going to grow up, and her husband wasn't.

Stacy Bierlein

#93. Life fucks you anonymously. It doesn't want to know your name, doesn't give a shit about your station. The terrain never stops shifting. One minute you think you've got the world by the balls, the next minute you don't know where the fuck the world's balls are.

Karen Marie Moning

#94. Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.

Melanie Benjamin

#95. Sometimes, you don't get what you want the most ... At other times, you're just lucky.

Sanhita Baruah

#96. Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?

Sol Luckman

#97. He could almost hear the wail of pain that went up from his heart. It was a sharp terrible personal pain the kind of pain that comes only when someone to whom you have never done any harm turns on you and says goodbye goodbye forever without any reason for doing it. Without any reason at all.

Dalton Trumbo

#98. There was nothing predictable in this life, and very little that was fair.

Sara Donati

#99. But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are 'they?'"
"I don't know. Just people."
"That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?

John Connolly

#100. Saying it ain't fair, over and over again while you stand in front of a wrecking ball is kinda senseless, I think.

Dan Groat