Unfair Quotes

• I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

  Bill Watterson

  World, Favors, Fairness

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• In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Stupid, Men, Views

  "Through Russian Eyes: President Kennedy's 1036 Days". Book by Anatoly Gromyko, p. 128, 1973.

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• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Pain, War, Should Have

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• Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.

  Joel Osteen

  Mind, Matter, Way

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Adversity, Greatness, Individual

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Literature, Violence

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for.

  Chris Rock

  Yeah, Judged

  Interview with Frank Rich, www.vulture.com. November 30, 2014.

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• Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Trying, Infinite Jest

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.

  Stephen Dunn

  Mask, Knows

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• I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Humanity

  "Letters to Atticus" (1st century B.C.), as quoted in "Words on war: military quotations from ancient times to the present", book by Jay M. Shafritz, 1990.

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• I wanted to show the real side of me because of the unfair things that people said about me, but I realized that it was impossible and tried to think of why people thought of me in that manner.

  Kim Jong-hyun

  Real, Thinking, People

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• 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, Country, War

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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Unbearable

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, People, Lapses

  "A Journey to Sakhalin". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Bridges, Troll

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted'" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Humanity

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• FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sex, Science, Female

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.82, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  News conference, 21 Mar. 1962

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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hitting, Unbearable, Reason

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  Yul Brynner

  Funny, Girl, Witty

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• You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

  Kesha

  People, Stereotype, Boxes

  "Ke$ha: 'You don't tell Alice Cooper what to do'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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• A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success.

  Kate Moss

  Revenge, Said, Horrible

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• I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, People, Palestinian

  Source: collider.com

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• If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Faith, Journey, Knowing

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• Every time you lose, you think that life's unfair. You think of the bad breaks. But when you're winning and playing well, you still get those bad breaks, only you overcome them. It just depends on how strong your mind is.

  Greg Norman

  Strong, Winning, Thinking

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