Unfair Quotes - Page 21

• You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They don’t have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.

  Nancy Farmer

  Dog, Horse, Believe

  Nancy Farmer (2010). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable. Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.

  George Saunders

  Running, Cheer, Children

  "George Saunders's funny, sad stories from a divided nation" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2016.

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• Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Pain, Sadness, Sorrow

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.337, Faber & Faber

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• We understand that the Iranian position is very bad because of the well-known sanctions against that country, and it would be unfair to leave it on this sanction level.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Would Be, Levels

  Source: thesaker.is

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• My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see for myself.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Lazy, Assumption, Easier

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• If I'm insulted I will counterattack, or if something is unfair, I will counterattack, but I don't feel like I insult people. I don't want to do that. But if I'm attacked, I will counterattack.

  Donald Trump

  People, Want, Insult

  "The 21 best exchanges in The Washington Post's Trump interviews" by Nick Gass and Nolan D. McCaskill, www.politico.com. August 30, 2016.

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• We need law and order in the inner cities, because the people that are most affected by what's happening are African-American and Hispanic people. And it's very unfair to them what our politicians are allowing to happen.

  Donald Trump

  Order, Law, Cities

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Mean, Men, Doors

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• I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Smart, Decision, Charity

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• Well i know that my company is not corrupt or unfair because i got all this with all my hard work. I see no reason why you say my company was corrupt may you explain to me miss [Ida] Tarbell.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Hard Work, Missing, May

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.

  Ida Tarbell

  Book, Writing, Eye

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.

  Ida Tarbell

  Believe, Men, John D Rockefeller

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes in order to send other people to university, without them, you know, contributing.

  Tony Blair

  Order, People, Population

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Sometimes, Obliged

  "Stilorama Magazine Interviews Sonia Rykiel". www.stilorama.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Life Is, Life Is Unfair, Metaphor

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• All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us

  Luc de Clapiers

  Clever, Beneficial, Ifs

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• At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.

  James Herriot

  Morning, Sunshine, Hanging On

  James Herriot (2011). “All Creatures Great and Small”, p.210, Open Road Media

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• Its unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people.

  Donald Shoup

  Cities, People, Car

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• Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful 'intent to monopolize'; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'unfair competition' or 'restraint of trade'; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'collusion' or 'conspiracy.'

  Ayn Rand

  Successful, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.46, Penguin

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• In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Criticism, Easy, Justify

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter XX, "Where It Went," p. 285, 1975.

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• There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Say Anything, Groups

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• I think it’s unfair that people can’t give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person — you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, ‘You can give your assets to anybody you want.’

  Foster Friess

  Gay, Thinking, People

  "Republican Mega-Donor Foster Friess Urges Moderate Path On Gay Rights" by Chris Geidner, www.buzzfeed.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Even if the criticism is not always perfectly informed and in some cases I would deem unfair, just the noise, attention, fuss probably keeps powerful officials or agencies on their toes. And they should be on their toes when it comes to the use of deadly force.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Agency, Criticism

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.

  Marc Rotenberg

  Promise, Information, Break

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• Obviously, our most pressing need is subsistence for the most vulnerable victims of Katrina, but we should not overlook the fact that the victims of Katrina also include middle-class Americans who have saved and invested, but now face an economic crisis, .. They should be able to tap into their savings and meet this crisis without facing an unfair penalty.

  Artur Davis

  Class, Saving, Able

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