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Quotes About Unfairness

Men never had to deal with this, Faith thought. Men didn't hide in bathrooms and wrestle microfiber and pantyhose. Totally not fair. Men had it easy. Did men get bikini waxed and wear uncomfortable underwear? No, they did not. Faith would bet her life that a man had invented thongs. Men sucked.
~ Kristan Higgins
Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.
~ Carsten Jensen
Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't deserve this, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that either.
~ Jack Benny
I really don't deserve this, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
~ Jack Benny
Today's Forgiveness Practice is about forgiving the judgments, hurts, and wounds that may be buried in your consciousness and are engraved into your mother's name. You will be forgiving all thoughts, beliefs, memories, and experiences you may have judged as wrong, unfair, unkind, or unloving.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
~ Jack London
It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.
~ Johann Lamont
It's massively unfair, love. I wish there was something I could say to make it better, but there isn't. Sometimes things are just really, really bad, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
~ Tana French
She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these people here with her had to be treated this way. Who had decided this, and what for?
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.
~ Taylor Swift
Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.
~ John Marston
Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
~ Ned Vizzini
Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.
~ Nicholas Sparks
No one ever said life was fair
~ Nicholas Sparks
The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich.
~ Sharan Burrow
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will provide plenty of time for silence.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The news about Eddoes and the shoes travelled round the street pretty quickly. My mother was annoyed. She said, 'You see what sort of thing life is. Here I is, working my finger to the bone. Nobody flinging me a pair of shoes just like that, you know. And there you got that thin-arse little man, doing next to nothing, and look at all the things he does get.
~ V.S. Naipaul
None of this is fair. It isn't fair that part of your life was ripped from you. It's not fair that you were ripped away from me. I'm so angry Simon.
~ Cassandra Clare
Who ever said the world was fair?
~ Cassandra Clare
That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair.
~ Cassandra Clare
How could such a pretty girl become known as the Hag, she wondered. It must be hateful to become old in face and body when you're young at heart and still strong and tough—so unfair for a woman.
~ James Clavell