Unfair Quotes - Page 18

• Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

  George Orwell

  Football, Hurt, Games

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair

  Michael Josephson

  Justice, Ethics, Fairness

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• I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.

  Tim Costello

  Leadership, Australia, Water

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• We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

  Jonathan Ive

  Jobs, Philosophical, Opportunity

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Evening Standard Interview, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.

  Eugenie Clark

  Men, Credit, Fields

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• At the Olympics, there was a little bit of unfair judging, but I tried not to be disappointed and to do my best. I think the audience respected and loved what I did at the Olympics, and that helped me become the world champion in 1997.

  Olena Vitrychenko

  Gymnastics, Thinking, Judging

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• Some foreign investors accuse us of being unfair to shareholders by using our resources for community development. Yes, this is money that could have made for dividend payouts, but it also is money that's uplifting and improving the quality of life of people in the rural areas where we operate and work. We owe them that.

  Ratan Tata

  Uplifting, Money, People

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• Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Law, Unjust, May

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.295, Fordham Univ Press

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• The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Law, Doe

  Mark Twain, Bernard L. Stein (1983). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.279, Univ of California Press

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• It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Hurt, Children

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• It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

  James Agee

  Photography, Travel, Lying

  Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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• Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

  Mark Twain

  Hands, Luck, Honest

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.422, Univ of California Press

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• I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.

  Ted Cruz

  Party, Years, Law

  FaceBook post by Senator Ted Cruz from Jan 28, 2013

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• The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone.

  Ryan Lewis

  Bullying, Children, Thinking

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• Life is not unfair. Life is what you make of it.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Life Is

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• Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Humor, Political

  Remarks by the President at Nebraska Welcome, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 28, 2001.

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• I believe that there are three conditions to a woman’s beauty. First, you must realize that not all women are beautiful all of the time. Sometimes beauty comes on a subconscious level. When she is in love, or has met someone new and exciting, she shines. Second, you must understand that life is unfair. Beauty is something that, for some, must be worked at. The third condition is luck. Some women can just be lucky.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Beautiful, Believe, Shining

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• It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Society, Politics, Politician

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.161, Random House

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• As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversitylet us also be partners in prosperity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Together, Capes, Rising

  "Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 25, 1963.

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• I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.

  John O'Hara

  Reviews, Unreasonable, Very Depressed

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• There was this one model in French Elle. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be her. She was brunette with big lips and was wearing this tight navy dress by Azzedine someone. She was so beautiful; and the choices she must have. and…Oh, I would give it all up just to have been born that way because her life will be so easy. She won’t have to think, and men will fall into her lap and…It’s all unfair and I don’t want to even write it.
  It will never change, and no one wants to admit it but being thin and pretty is the best thing a woman can be.

  Rae Earl

  Beautiful, Fall, Writing

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• Clearly it's not easy for woman in modern society, no matter where we live. We still have to go extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. We have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Sacrifice, Men, Matter

  "Whither Pakistan: Dictatorship Or Democracy?".

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• Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Mixing, Suggestions

  Letter to Dr. Porter, Medical Officer of Health for Johannesburg, February 15, 1905.

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• If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair?

  Ani DiFranco

  Stupid, Care, Angry

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• How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage? Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system.

  Mario

  Giving, Unfair Advantage, Losing

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