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Quotes About Unfairness

When you see how God restores you, how He pays you back for what was unfair, how He brings you out better, your mourning is going to be turned to dancing, your sorrow turned to joy, that weeping turned to laughter.
~ Joel Osteen
Life on Earth will never be fair the way we expect it to be.
~ Caroline Myss
Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.
~ Barbara Holland
It's a total injustice. Things like that happen in life.
~ LaVar Arrington
Hasn't anyone ever told you? Life isn't fair.
~ Stephenie Meyer
SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.
~ RuPaul
But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victmized. Like the world is so unfair.
~ E. Lockhart
Half the time I hate myself for all the things I've done...But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair.
~ E. Lockhart
Half the time I hate myself for all the things I've done,' says Gat. 'But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair.' 'Why do you hate yourself?' And before I know it, Gat is lying on the bed next to me. His cold fingers wrap around me hot ones, and his face is close to mine. He kisses me. 'Because I want things I can't have,' he whispers.
~ E. Lockhart
It's the same the whole world over,It's the poor wot gets the blame,It's the rich wot gets the pleasure,Ain't it all a bloomin' shame?
~ Anonymous
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair, and sometimes downright cruel. There are people who spend their entire lives basking in her glow, and others never seem to get one goddamned break.
~ Francine Pascal
When economist William Beveridge dreamed up the postwar welfare state he wanted to fight five 'giant evils' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. Fast forward 65 years and it seems the last New Labour government grew an Unfair State that fuelled - not fought - one of those evils: idleness.
~ Jeremy Kyle
Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.
~ Jonathan Kozol
I felt that I didn't get a fair chance at Texas Tech to compete, for an assortment of reasons, but reasons I couldn't really control.
~ Davis Webb
Happy, no. I'm unhappy because I feel myself a victim of people's rotten tricks. It's not fair and I'll say it. And I'll die saying I was unfairly treated. I've been stripped, robbed, looted, mucked up, insulted from all directions, by people who don't deserve anything. Here is exactly what I think, and I haven't any inferiority or guilt complexes towards anyone. I feel all others are guilty, not me.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Love lost by one moment's explicit unfairness can't be won back by trying to justify it
~ Lynne Reid Banks
The unfairness of it all was rather depressing. Not only did men get to enjoy sex, which from all accounts was painful for the woman, but they didn't have to suffer monthly bleeding, or push huge babies out into the world from their own bodies, which was not only painful but often killed the woman. Truly, it did seem to her that women often got the short end of the stick in life. The
~ Lynsay Sands
That seems horribly unfair, and it was. But as is so often the case with outliers, buried in that setback was a golden opportunity.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
relative deprivation
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
~ Harold S. Kushner
How many times have I been put at the front of the line without even knowing there was a line? How many times have I walked through a door that opened, invisibly and silently, for me, but slammed shut for others? How many lines have I cut in a life of privilege?
~ Andy Crouch
She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better.
~ Ann Brashares
Reverend Downey tried to focus the service on remembering happy days with Amelia, but all I could think about was the unfairness of life. How was it possible that an irresponsible drunk could cause an accident, kill a perfectly innocent girl and walk away almost without a scratch? There seemed to be no justice in the world.
~ Ann M. Martin
Something occurred to me then. It was all about the unfairness of the pageant. Mary Anne was absolutely right. Myriah really should have won, if this pageant was honestly based on people's talents and character, but it wasn't. I was glad that because Myriah had been given such a terrific prize, she wasn't disappointed about not winning the grand prize. But I was sorry that she had to settle (even happily) for second best.
~ Ann M. Martin