Unfair Quotes

#1. It seemed altogether unfair and unreasonable that the sky should be so hard.

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.

Lauren Oliver

#3. These humans - they are cruel monsters. Liars. Deceitful. For the first time, I want to hurt them the way they hurt me. This is so unfair. My body feels numb, my energy spent, my mind deceived and angry.

Rachel Cohn

#4. It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is

Neil Gaiman

#5. Isn't it always unfair - death always a kind of outrage? A life ended too soon with jagged and torn edges, a sentence incomplete.

Rebecca Stott

#6. We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

Bryan Stevenson

#7. I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.

Laini Taylor

#8. Oh, so there were angels and demons, but no vampires? No mysterious, super-hot bloodsuckers who would love you forever? Now that was totally unfair.

Alycia Linwood

#9. Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Cleave

#10. far as the reputations of young women are concerned, the less fucking the better. The reverse is true for young men of course. Hardly fair, but then life is unfair in so many ways, this one hardly seems worth commenting on." "Huh.

Joe Abercrombie

#11. All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgements. My continuing need for her approbation is pathetic. Twice now I have stopped myself on the street to remonstrate with her, a crazy old coot talking to himself.

Mordecai Richler

#12. I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself.

Susan Boyle

#13. Maybe. We're all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouting into the jaws of eternity. But it seems so damned unfair!

Glen Cook

#14. I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

Lance Armstrong

#15. He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay."
"I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and claws, or launch its brood of a thousand deadly paper clips against you.

Scott Westerfeld

#16. You have extraordinary power to establish justice and make a real difference in the lives of those whom the enemy took unfair advantage of.....through trauma.

Jim Banks

#17. It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.

Bob Graham

#18. How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)

Lauren Weisberger

#19. It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

Michael Josephson

#20. It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

Francis Spufford

#21. If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.

James D. Watson

#22. You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

George Meyer

#23. Try to let what is unfair teach you.

David Foster

#24. He's come to learn that life is a bitter bitch. She is inherently unfair.

Ilona Andrews

#25. When there's blood involved, you always use every advantage you have to make sure it's theirs that spills and not yours. If you want to feel guilty about taking unfair advantage afterward, you go ahead and feel that shit. But live to feel it.

Kevin Hearne

#26. In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

Greta Van Susteren

#27. Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

Marvin Olasky

#28. If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.

Joseph Murphy

#29. I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#30. Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

Edward Abbey

#31. Even his voice was unfair.

R.K. Lilley

#32. It would be unfair to measure him against a fictional standard that he could never possibly achieve.

Karen Witemeyer

#33. Life for the majority of the population.
Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
Culminating in a cheap funeral.

Siegfried Sassoon

#34. All I ever wanted was an unfair advantage

Garrison Wynn

#35. Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

Peter Ustinov

#36. Free white workers were better off than slaves or servants, but they still resented unfair treatment by the wealthier classes.

Howard Zinn

#37. If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

Mardy Grothe

#38. You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.

Phil Anselmo

#39. It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.

Ziyi Zhang

#40. If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

Boyd K. Packer

#41. It is unfair for our hospitals to bear a hugely disproportionate burden for mandated emergency health treatment for illegal aliens.

Jon Kyl

#42. It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.

Jojo Moyes

#43. For in a way that feels quite unfair, the only way I can gain any qualifications at this thing
sex
that is seen as so societally important and desirable, is by being a massive slag
which is *not* seen as societally important and desirable. This often makes me furious.

Caitlin Moran

#44. I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#45. The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him

Michael Mori

#46. Hector!" He whips around. "You were never, never, going to be just a diversion to me." He sighs, nodding. "That was unfair of me," he says. "I'm sorr - " "And you will kiss me again. That and more. Count on it.

Rae Carson

#47. It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.

William Bernbach

#48. I opened my mouth-and had nothing to refute that with. Damn people who argued using logic. Talk about unfair.

Jeaniene Frost

#49. It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Christopher Morley

#50. Even Colin - the golden boy, the man with the easy smile and devilish humor - had raw spots of his own. He was haunted by unfulfilled dreams and secret insecurities. How unfair she had been when she'd pondered his life, not to allow him his weaknesses.

Julia Quinn

#51. It is unfair to use that gun against a fellow human and then blame God because you chose to take another man's life. (Simon)

Pete Conrad

#52. The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

Colin Powell

#53. God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.

Harper Lee

#54. Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

Hendrik Hertzberg

#55. I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

Mark Twain

#56. Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.

Virginia Foxx

#57. We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics' justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person's lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#58. I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

Fred Melamed

#59. With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

Rob Portman

#60. A lot of unpredictable things happened in the Republican party, but I think the notion that we're gonna demonize Donald Trump or we're gonna mischaracterize him is completely unfair.

Anthony Scaramucci

#61. I think I was respectful to my father in that I only told the portions that he had already told. So, I never went outside of the things that he had already stated in his article because then I think it becomes unfair.

Michael Landon Jr.

#62. Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#63. The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

Isabel Allende

#64. But Nature is unfair to women. An act is done by two people, but if there are any consequences, one person carries it alone.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#65. Life is catastrophe ... Everything is unfair. Who do we complain to in this shitty place? ... We all lose everything that matters in the end ... it's possible to play it with a kind of joy.p.767, The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

#66. There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die.

Gillian Flynn

#67. Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

Bertrand Russell

#68. In the meantime, it's unfair of me to use my expectations as the standard for their behavior or hold it against them when they don't live up to my hopes.

Lysa TerKeurst

#69. No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.

Peter McWilliams

#70. Sure it all seemed a little silly now but all the old antipathies about unfair penalties were still there just beneath the surface.

Liane Moriarty

#71. I thought it was very unfair. I thought what happened to Mitt Romney was very unfair in the third debate. So, I'd want to be. I'd want to have somebody that I think could be fair.

Donald Trump

#72. In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Konrad Adenauer

#73. It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person's true character.

Billy Graham

#74. Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.

Stephan Jenkins

#75. If life is unfair with everyone, doesn't that make life fair

Thabang Gideon Magaola

#76. Remember every team wants to beat Chelsea, probably even more than Manchester United or Arsenal because they believe we have an unfair advantage.

Frank Lampard

#77. Why, god, why? Why have you deserted me in my moment of need? I'm going to die. I'm going to internally combust never knowing what if feels like to be inside of my girlfriend.
Life is so unfair.

Cheryl McIntyre

#78. I think it's unfair to say that Chinese companies are squeezing out American companies. China has so many solar companies that are failing, too.

Shi Zhengrong

#79. Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

L. Todd Rose

#80. A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.

Francesca Marciano

#81. A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Marianne Moore

#82. The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

Tim Allen

#83. I'm not allowed to make a joke. It is a bit unfair how I'm treated. I thought it was a joke. I got calls and messages. I would rather not to have to worry about things like that. It is disappointing.

Andy Murray

#84. Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip.

Chris Hogan

#85. It's just, well, I can't stand it when someone's unfair to Mr. Wolflaw, because he's really so ... he's so incredible." "I understand. It really steams me when people say bad things about Vladimir Putin.

Dean Koontz

#86. She knew she was being unfair ... ; she knew she was acting like the most vulgar of women, the kind that is out to cause pain and knows how.

Milan Kundera

#87. Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remains standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Pope John Paul II

#88. Though the brain says all is well, the soul is lost, confused, doesn't know why life is being unfair to it.

Paulo Coelho

#89. To exploit is to take undue advantage of someone else's need, whether that be unfair wages paid or unfair prices charged. I have just summed up the current state of modern capitalism in one sentence.

Robert Peate

#90. But while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

Barack Obama

#91. I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.

Terrell Owens

#92. There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

Paul Farmer

#93. Nothing was quite as unfair as a world where the right choice was the one that hurt the one person he needed to protect.

Kit Rocha

#94. It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do
or don't do.

Simone De Beauvoir

#95. That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn't help his mood.

Rick Riordan

#96. To be judged of what you were is just unfair as a butterfly being judge while it was a capetillar

Hlovate

#97. people are unfair but God is not

Mariam

#98. Even though we live in an unfair world, where some men and nations acquire their wealth in ways that are not always as straightforward as we would like it to be, yet in the midst of it all, it is not impossible to discover principles and secrets for the greatness of nations.

Sunday Adelaja

#99. Interesting capitalization,' I said.
'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

John Green

#100. I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class ... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

Nick McDonell