Unfairness Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Games, People, Advice

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

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Reality, May

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When Bad Things Happen to Good People: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Atheist, Thinking, Taught

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• God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.

  Joel Osteen

  Loss, Unfair, Stolen

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• 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

  God, Christian, Hope

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

  Philip Yancey

  Easter, Evil, Religion

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.151, Harper Collins

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• Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His agent doesn’t love him (enough). The blank sheet of paper is an enemy. The publisher is a cheapskate. The critic is a philistine. The public doesn’t understand him. His wife doesn’t understand him. The bartender doesn’t understand him.

  Peter Mayle

  Wife, Enemy, Agents

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from May 29, 2011

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

  David Gemmell

  Complaining, Fairs

  David Gemmell (2011). “Lion Of Macedon”, p.241, Hachette UK

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• And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

  C. S. Lewis

  Demand, Deeds, Rewards

  "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis, California Books Inc., (p. 36), August 7, 2014.

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• Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

  Ayn Rand

  Equality, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

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• I had an indefatigable curiosity about everything. But why should my fate have depended upon that? Why does the curiosity of a child born into the lowest classes have to overcome everything put in his or her way to mute that curiosity, when a child born to parents with access to the advantages of life will have his meager curiosity kindled and nurtured? The unfairness is horrifying when it is properly understood as an unfairness meted out on children, on infants, on babies.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Baby, Children, Fate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The fundamental purpose of Marxism is the total control of a population under the belief that individualism and free markets lead to great disparities and inequalities and injustices and unfairness. Now, this is the outward appeal. Marxism is evil, and Marx knew it, but the appeal that seduces people is its justice and equality and fairness. What they don't tell you is the equality is spread equally to the point everybody's miserably equal and miserably the same.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Evil, Justice

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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

  Running, Country, New York

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• Most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done in their life, not what other people have done, with their lives. Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an anything seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes".

  Tao Lin

  Hate, War, Racism

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Believe, Unlimited Love

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• 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

  Dream, Exercise, People

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• A girl doesn't notice unfairness until she falls in love

  Yoshiki Nakamura

  Girl, Falling In Love, Fall

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• For most of the universe's life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.

  Frank Beddor

  Struggle, Adversity, Soldier

  Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers

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• More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.

  John Green

  Pain, Sadness, Loving Someone

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Penguin

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• As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Social Values, Workplace

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.18, Random House

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• Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes," [other things most people feel aversion toward].

  Tao Lin

  Hate, War, Racism

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we’re under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Sacrifice, Gay, Law

  "Don’t End the War on Terror" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• 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

  Wise, Spring, Selfish

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at San Diego Exposition in San Diego, California, October 2, 1935.

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• I decided to go into politics because my children are growing up, and I became worried about the ways things are being handled in this country. I felt there's a lost generation of people who feel misrepresented, and that they're doing their best for the country but the country is not doing its best for them. We are all looking at our children and wondering whether or not they will see their future in Israel. They looked at the country before the last elections and saw it becoming more and more Orthodox. There was a strong sense of unfairness.

  Yair Lapid

  Country, Strong, Children

  Source: www.slate.com

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• While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.

  Russell Baker

  Men, People, Life Is

  "So This Is Depravity and Other Observations". Book by Russell Baker, 1980.

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