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Quotes About Unfairness

It's like now that I'm looking for inequality, I'm seeing it everywhere, categorizing a thousand great and small unfairnesses everywhere I go. Why didn't I really see this before?
~ Candace Bushnell
To those who would dominate you, knowledge must be crushed, because people who understand are people who will stand against the unfairness of the elite.
~ Terry Goodkind
You could say to the universe this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn't it? Sorry.
~ Terry Pratchett
You could say to the universe, this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn´t it? Sorry. You could save people. You could get there in the nick of time. And something could snap its fingers and say, no, it has to be this way. Let me tell you how it has to be.
~ Terry Pratchett
Wrong as a squirrel with feathers, or a wolf with wooden teeth; not injustice, not unfairness—just a wrongness that, under the sky, could not exist.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Wrong. Wrong as a squirrel with feathers, or a wolf with wooden teeth; not injustice, not unfairness—just a wrongness that, under the sky, could not exist... the idea that such as he could belong to anything.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
I hate the world sometimes," Anthea said. "The unfairness of it. I won't force you to see me if you don't want to - but nobody can stop me loving you, and I'll wait for you all my life if I have to.
~ Kate Saunders
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
~ Gaston Caperton
I am a god. I don't do fair.
~ Ilona Andrews
The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can't succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that's a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
There is nothing just in death. When the moment arrives, it is always too soon. The curse of incompletion, the loss that can never be filled. Before too long, rising like jagged rocks from the flood, there was anger.
~ Steven Erikson
life ain't fair. It's always slightly one sided
~ Sunny
Sometimes you sit in a cell and don't deserve it, Mr. Harding. Sometime it's the other way around
~ Mitch Albom
As we look back on things, what haunts us the most is not the struggle. Not the disease. The fact that the years pass and we say, Chika would have been eight or Chika would have been nine, or, one day, Chika would be in college now, drinking coffee. It's not the time she spent battling we lament. It's the growing up she missed. The time she didn't get. The future she never saw. That still seems so unfair.
~ Mitch Albom
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
~ Nancy Mitford
It is unfair' was a perpetual cry of the Radletts when young. The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
~ Nancy Mitford
All labor systems that depend on coercing a work force into accepting bad conditions and unfair compensation have recognized the effectiveness of keeping that work force exhausted to keep it from making trouble.
~ Naomi Wolf
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
~ Carson McCullers
That was the way things were. It was like she was mad all the time. Not how a kid gets mad quick so that soon it is all over - but in another way. Only there was nothing to be mad at. Unless the store. But the store hadn't asked her to take the job. So there was nothing to be mad at. It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
~ Carson McCullers
Por qué no podía, al menos por una vez, descubrir que tenía poderes mágicos? No era justo, a las chicas americanas en las películas siempre les ocurría...
~ Cecelia Ahern
Who, after all, is in favor of unfairness? Similarly with "social justice," "equality," and other undefined terms that can mean wholly different things to different individuals and groups—all of whom can be mobilized in support of policies that use such appealing words.
~ Thomas Sowell
It's not luck, I'm cheating." (Allen Walker)
~ Katsura Hoshino
if you're hell-bent on lookin' for fairness, you're on the wrong damn planet.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
Nate snorted and said, "Maybe you should get a job. It might take your mind off all the unfairness going on out there.
~ C. J. Box