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Quotes About Unfairness

There is no law that says the gods must be fair.
~ Madeline Miller
Colin's dropped out and Shania's been expelled for no reason and
~ Malorie Blackman
We're in the wrong universe for fair.
~ John Scalzi
We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.
~ John Steinbeck
Misfortune is not fair, fate is not just, but they exist just the same.
~ John Steinbeck
Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
~ Unknown
Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe
~ Unknown
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
~ John F Kennedy
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
~ Oscar Wilde
Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
~ Terri Guillemets
That's one of therapy's cruel aspects: the therapist is unique to you, but not the other way around. How unfair. It's the most unequal relationship you could imagine.
~ Unknown
Fate is never fair. This is why there is such a thing as magic.
~ Unknown
It's not fair." "It's not. But then, that's the game. It makes life great. The fact that it ends when we don't want it to. The ending gives it meaning.
~ Marisha Pessl
The joke Colombians told was that God had made their land so beautiful, so rich in every natural way, that it was unfair to the rest of the world; He had evened the score by populating it with the most evil race of men.
~ Mark Bowden
The skeptic often retorts that the "criminally-minded" regularly refuse to admit their own wrongdoing and responsibility. But this is a callous and self-justifying skepticism that overlooks just how easy it is to fall down the road to prison as a result of others' unfair practices, vicious action, or because of the vicissitudes of navigating corporate-driven dispossession, poverty, and racism.
~ Unknown
The dice are stacked against them
~ Unknown
think he got a bum rap.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
Life is one game where people don't play fair.
~ Unknown
But maybe that's what getting older is all about, right, Clark? You start to realize just how much of the world is unfair. And how few people care. It's not about justice, right? It's about power. And the people where I live…we don't have any. Not yet.
~ Matt de la Pena
He was a walking cut corner, a thumb on the scale of American history. The
~ Matt Taibbi
When the failure-type personality looks for a scapegoat or excuse for his failure, he often blames society, "the system," life, "the breaks." He resents the success and happiness of others because it is proof to him that life is shortchanging him and he is being treated unfairly.
~ Maxwell Maltz
Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.
~ Maya Banks
There is no justice here; there is no justice there; there is no justice anywhere!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Whiteness is an advantage and privilege because you have made it so, not because the universe demands it.
~ Michael Eric Dyson