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Quotes About Unfairness

Usually people avoided mentioning Abel's name, as if he'd done something unforgiveable. Which I guess he had: He reminded people of the cruel unfairness of life, and the closeness of death.
~ Sara Gran
Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
~ David Brin
Life is rough for everyone....Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others.
~ Ann Landers
On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!
~ Ursula Bloom
Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.
~ Maura Tierney
Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.
~ William Boyd
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.
~ Chris Cleave
This is adding insult to injury.
~ Edward Moore
Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall, unfairly so to other scientists.
~ Edward O. Wilson
An exception to the law is a mother distinction of all distinctions; it endorses dishonesty and unfairness too.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Unfairly favoring and supporting the battle of unjust interests destroys global peace and ends the efforts to end poverty.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
~ Eli Khamarov
After years of globalisation, disaffected populations have lost confidence that the system is fair.
~ Barry Gardiner
I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.
~ Danny DeVito
Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.
~ Ruth Hurmence Green
The sensations he had were shared by many of the young, poor and beautiful: how unfair it was that they should be denied benefits which the old and ugly enjoyed.
~ Ruth Rendell
What are the (4) greatest tragedies in life? 1) To commit unjust behaviors, acts. 2)To cause unjust harm to someone or something. 3) To fall victim to injustice. 4) To suffer unjust pain.
~ Ryan Pack
It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time. He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck.
~ Malcolm X
I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable.
~ Margaret Atwood
I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable.
~ Margaret Atwood
Poetry deals with the core of human existence: life, death, renewal, change; as well as fairness and unfairness, injustice and sometimes justice. The world in all its variety.
~ Margaret Atwood
Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.
~ Margaret Mitchell
the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.
~ Mary Lee Settle