Unfair Quotes - Page 22

• I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.

  Ida Tarbell

  Book, Writing, Eye

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.

  Ida Tarbell

  Believe, Men, John D Rockefeller

  Source: jcdcvl.wordpress.com

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• Even if the criticism is not always perfectly informed and in some cases I would deem unfair, just the noise, attention, fuss probably keeps powerful officials or agencies on their toes. And they should be on their toes when it comes to the use of deadly force.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Agency, Criticism

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level of profit he won't accept. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter came up with this scheme that resulted in the subprime mortgage crisis. They said it was unfair that poor and minority people didn't have houses, so we're basically gonna give 'em houses. How are we gonna do that? We're going to make the banks loan them money, knowing full well they can't pay it back.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Knowing, People, Giving

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Another way in which our system is unfair. Why do Iowans get so much of a bigger voice every four years than everybody else? Ditto for New Hampshire. There are proposals and it could well happen that we could have a rotating calendar where different years different states went first. I would endorse that.

  Frank Bruni

  Different, Proposal

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• There is also the very real possibility that, in the justice of God, one of the reasons He uses the weak and the foolish of the world is so that no argument could be made later that certain people were advantaged in some unfair way by that which was unearned-either in the premortal life or here. Hence it seems prudent for us to realize that just because one is set apart or ordained to a certain calling or assignment he or she must not expect to be set apart from the stresses of life. There appear to be no immunities.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Stress, Justice Of God

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• Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.

  Timothy Keller

  Karma, God, Meaningful

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin

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• Our people were not happy. I knew at some point we were going to win. It's a little unfair, but that's the reality. To some degree, it became a one-game season for some folks.

  Tom Osborne

  Winning, Reality, Games

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• Its the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to fuel the insurgency, because they can make the incorrect and unfair claim that somehow the United States is here to occupy this country, which of course is not true.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Reality, United States

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• The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him

  Michael Mori

  Reality, Justice, Doe

  "Al Qaeda man faces tribunal", www.cnn.com. August 26, 2004.

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• As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

  Frances O'Grady

  Morning, Jobs, Real

  "TUC leader Frances O'Grady: 'People want some hope for the future'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

  Jon Kyl

  Taxes, Immoral

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• Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Jobs, Agreement

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• I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually.

  Gordon Brown

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Empathy, Apathy, Offensive

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.110, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in thinking spatially, some in thinking language, others are very logical, other people need to be hands on and explore actively and try things out -- then education, which treats everybody the same way, is actually the most unfair education.

  Howard Gardner

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

  Reinhold Messner

  Nature, Travel, Climbing

  "All Fourteen 8,000ers". Book by Reinhold Messner, 1987.

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• You could be winning and feel like you're losing because the scorecard you're using is unfair.

  Tony Robbins

  Winning, Losing, Like You

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 25, 2010

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• In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

  Honus Wagner

  Sports, Baseball, Years

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Break Through, Done

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• If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Rights, Offending, Law

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• Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.

  Elton Gallegly

  Moving, School, College

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• Looking out of the window at the infinite sky, I prayed out, 'Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sin, even though I do not know what they are, which seems a bit unfair if it is going to be held against me. But that is your way. And I am not questioning your wisdomosity. In future, however, would it be possible for my life to be not so entirely crap? Thank you.

  Louise Rennison

  Baby, Jesus, Sorry

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• Never complain or make excuses. If something seems unfair, just prove yourself by working twice as hard and being twice as good.

  Amy Chua

  Complaining, Excuse, Proving Yourself

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The Democrats are about punishing achievement and punishing success and saying it's unjustified, it's unfair, and it may involve cheating and scandal. They stigmatize success because their voters are people who cannot achieve those things. The Democrats have made sure they don't even want to try.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cheating, People, Achievement

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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