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Quotes About Unfairness

C??ng b?c là d?u hi?u ch? không ph?i ngu?n g?c c?a b?t công.
~ Michael J. Sandel
Pay attention: The ones who pay the shit tax are mostly people who were born in the wrong place and the wrong time and are hanging on to the planet by their broken fingernails. They don't even know the fucking rules of the game. You can't even get mad at 'em when they lose. Life just fucks and fucks and fucks bastards like that.
~ Min Jin Lee
She did not get a medal - it was not fair. 'What a swizz,' she whispered bitterly to her mother as Cicely Barnard's name was called. 'She simply doesn't know enough to be bad.
~ Monica Dickens
The lottery is similar to inheritance. The winner gets more than he deserves, plunging the economy into chaos.
~ Unknown
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
~ Nancy Mitford
A lot of people went through life feeling they'd been ripped off. The money, the good jobs, the beautiful women, the rich husbands, had been snatched away from them, given to the wrong people.
~ Nevada Barr
I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender
~ Orson Scott Card
Miss Althea?" "I don't blame you, Jesse," she said at last, taking control of her whirling emotions. "I must have…I must have led you astray somehow. But you must never touch me again." Jesse's disappointment was palpable. "Never?" That seemed impossible. To be allowed to know how wonderful it was to feel and smell and taste her and then to never be allowed that again. It was so unfair. Jesse wanted to cry. It was too unfair.
~ Unknown
These extraordinary measures were not about me being treated the same as other people; they were about me being treated worse.
~ Paris Hilton
Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
~ Patrick Ness
Has deducido una verdad universal: la realidad suele ser injusta.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You've deduced a universal truth: things are usually unfair.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
anger is usually a response to perceived injustice, and so angry experiences are often negative ones.
~ Paul Bloom
How is it I'm the enemy when she's the other woman? That seems very unfair, doesn't it?
~ Paula McLain
They do this by shaming or intimidating you whenever you have a natural impulse to have sympathy for yourself, or stand up for yourself. The instinct to care for yourself and to protect yourself against unfairness is then forced to become dormant.
~ Unknown
deeper psychological health is seen only when you can maintain a posture of self-love and self-respect in the times of emotional hurt that accompany life's inevitable contingencies of loss, loneliness, confusion, uncontrollable unfairness, and accidental mistake.
~ Unknown
There are many perpetrators who seem to have a sixth sense for identifying people who have lost the ability to protest and blame unfairness. If we do not register a "negative" feeling response to hurtfulness, we cannot tell that we are being abused. Instead we tacitly "forgive" our abusers just as we were forced to tacitly forgive our parents, no matter how much ongoing abuse they dish out. This is why psychoanalyst Judith Viorst says:
~ Unknown