Unfair Quotes

• I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

  Bill Watterson

  World, Favors, Fairness

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• 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

  Stupid, Men, Views

  "Through Russian Eyes: President Kennedy's 1036 Days". Book by Anatoly Gromyko, p. 128, 1973.

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• Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

  Peter Ustinov

  Favour, Remember, Sometimes

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

  Pope John Paul II

  Pain, War, Should Have

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• But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Moving, Might, Way

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• Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.

  Joel Osteen

  Mind, Matter, Way

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Art, Mean, Self

  "La sociologie est un sport de combat". Documentary, May 2, 2001.

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• If you're stuck in a situation that's painful or there's something that makes you angry, it can enable you to step back from your own experience of it and realize that this is just a part of what it is to be human. It can allow you to accept it a little bit more and make you feel like it's less unfair.

  Joan Osborne

  Steps, Littles, Realizing

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• Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.

  Chris Rock

  Yeah, Judged

  Interview with Frank Rich, www.vulture.com. November 30, 2014.

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• Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Trying, Infinite Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Adversity, Greatness, Individual

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Literature, Violence

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• It's important to teach students about the reality of the system, that it is in fact the case that they are being targeted unfairly, that the rules have been set up in a way that authorize unfair treatment of them, and how difficult it is to challenge these laws in the courts. We need to teach them how our politics have changed in recent years, how there has been, in fact, a backlash. But we need to couple that information with stories of how people in the past have challenged these kinds of injustices, and the role that youth have played historically in those struggles.

  Michelle Alexander

  Couple, Struggle, Past

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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  It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

  Jane Austen

  Judging, Body, Judgment

  Jane Austen (2016). “Emma”, p.119, Xist Publishing

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• Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.

  Ed McCabe

  Creativity, Competition, Way

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• Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

  Stephen Dunn

  Mask, Knows

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• Life is hard. It’s cruel sometimes. It’s merciless and unfair, but we all go through difficult times, one way or another. You’ve had more than your share of knocks lately, I’ll give you that, but it doesn’t mean you get to quit. No one gets to quit. You keep fighting, every day, and sooner or later, the grief fades a little. You grow stronger, find joy again, and everything gets easier. You come out of it more equipped to handle the next wave, which will come eventually. There will always be waves.

  Julianne MacLean

  Grief, Mean, Fighting

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• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Humanity

  "Letters to Atticus" (1st century B.C.), as quoted in "Words on war: military quotations from ancient times to the present", book by Jay M. Shafritz, 1990.

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• I wanted to show the real side of me because of the unfair things that people said about me, but I realized that it was impossible and tried to think of why people thought of me in that manner.

  Kim Jong-hyun

  Real, Thinking, People

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• There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Country, War

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• To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Bridges, Troll

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted'" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

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• We all have unfair situations and things we don't like. You can get bitter, discouraged and sour, or you can see it as fertilizer and say, “ This difficulty is not going to defeat me; it's going to promote me. It's not going to hinder me; it's going to help me.” Don't just go through it, grow through it.

  Joel Osteen

  Helping, Bitter, Defeat

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• No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, People, Lapses

  "A Journey to Sakhalin". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Unbearable

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Humanity

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