Unfair Quotes - Page 17

• It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Society, Politics, Politician

  W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Plays Volume One”, p.161, Random House

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• In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.

  Preet Bharara

  Black, Information, Financial

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• For me photography had an immediacy... I was trying to resolve certain issues. What was fair or unfair about how people lived, and how they had to live? I thought the most penetrating and most immediate way to get to some of those questions was through photography.

  Jerome Liebling

  Photography, Issues, People

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• Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

  Gregory David Roberts

  People, Shantaram, Praise

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.408, Hachette UK

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• AIDS was something that was put upon us [as haitians], and we were immediately identified with it. That is unfair. That is unjust. I always say, "We are all people living with AIDS." It's not like you can avoid it. It's part of our world.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Our World, People, Unjust

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Discrimination, Poor, Conviction

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's been a major problem over the years. But obviously, to the young writer that's unfair and it's discriminatory, and it can be very hurtful to one's career.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• When you're really crazy you don't question it. Being aware of my behaviors stops them. Sure, a lot of people pick their cuticles, but how many people cut big parts of their skin off? It's unfair because I have been judged.

  Jenny Lawson

  Crazy, Cutting, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place.

  Barry Sanders

  Strong, Boys, World

  "Oregon Book Award Finalist Barry Sanders: the Purposeful Rambler". www.oregonlive.com. April 16, 2011.

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• People say nice things to me -- like that I ought to run for president -- which tells me that they like me. But I have my own deadline for how long I should be in Washington. I think you can get accustomed to red tape and many unfair things that go on in government. Once you stop getting angry about inefficiencies, waste, and injustice, you ought to get out. That's my time limit.

  Elizabeth Holtzman

  Running, Nice, Thinking

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• When you audition for things, there's pressure to go in there with a complete performance, and it's kind of unfair because, if you get it, you'll have rehearsal and talk about it, and you'll have plenty of time with the script. So, for me, I really do feel like an audition is a sketch of what you might do.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Auditions, Rehearsal, Might

  "Elisabeth Moss Talks Jane Campion’s Miniseries TOP OF THE LAKE, Filming in New Zealand, Working with Holly Hunter, the Dark Nature of the Story, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 18, 2013.

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• It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.

  Multatuli

  Circles, Tolerance, Angle

  Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.54, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dust, Sea, Humanity

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Believe, People, Mediocrity

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• No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Strength, Hurt, Strong

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• Everyone likes to tell stories. And gossip is, of course, even more exciting, if you know the people. But if the gossip's about yourself, it's very weird. They once wrote about me that I had been clubbing with some guys. At the moment I'm a victim and that hurts because it's not me who does something like that. Such stories are just unfair.

  Blake Lively

  Hurt, Gossip, People

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Secret, Violence, Causes

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.208, Tara Publishing

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• It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to create and make sense of things in life. Hopefully, it does the same for others.

  Hoodie Allen

  Thinking, Things In Life, Desire

  Source: blog.iluvlola.com

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• Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you won't find the right person and you won't end up getting married. Oh, well, life is unfair. But married people, because of their capacity to have children, even if they're not going to end up having children, even if they're unable to bear children, marriage is an institution that is absolutely central to civilization.

  Ann Coulter

  Children, Civilization, People

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 6, 2006.

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• It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.

  Darnell M. Hunt

  Opportunity, Color, White

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.

  Tulsi Tanti

  Rights, Majority, Influence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Its fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.

  Bob Graham

  Two, Years, Next

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• Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. We knew from that moment that things can go terribly wrong in our world-not because life is unfair, or moral progress impossible, but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions of our ignorant ancestors.

  Sam Harris

  Years, Our World, Ignorant

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• 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

  Bereavement, Age, Boards

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• In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.

  Robert Reed

  Couple, Cutting, Effort

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