Unfair Quotes - Page 3

• Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Hard Times, Facts, Life Is

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• He had 'deep concerns' with the pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants under consideration by the group, calling it 'profoundly unfair' to legal immigrants.

  Ted Cruz

  Pathways, Immigration, Groups

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• We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

  Fred Melamed

  Agreement, Knowing, Wish

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• Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

  Albert Ellis

  Giving, Challenges, World

  Albert Ellis, Debbie Joffe-Ellis (2010). “All Out!: An Autobiography”

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• You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

  Neil Gaiman

  Special, Helping, Limes

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended.

  David James Duncan

  Jesus, Taken, Way

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.23, Dial Press

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• In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

  Thomas Sowell

  Money, Answers, Way

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• With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Want, Clients, Hours

  Welfare bill won't work, key advisers tell Iain Duncan Smith" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Years, Reform, Welfare

  "Duncan Smith shakes up benefits in bid to cut costs and increase job incentives" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2010.

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• Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Jealous, Thinking, Forgiving

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• I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  War, Competition, Unemployment

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• How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

  Duke Ellington

  Dog, Children, Honesty

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Fake is not a word I like to use because there's nothing fake about what I do.  It's a show, it's a predetermined outcome; we're putting on a television drama, action, comedy, whatever you want to call it - but it's not fake.  Fake would be if I was just about to take a body slam, and my stuntman did it.  Fake would be if I was going to take a chair shot to the head, and the chair was made of rubber.  I'll tell the world that it's a show, but I hate the word fake.  It's such an unfair term to us.

  Chris Jericho

  Hate, Drama, Fake

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• Today's decision affirms what we all know to be true — the U.S. Constitution guarantees the basic civil rights of all Americans, not just some. Utah's ban on marriage equality does nothing to strengthen or protect any marriage. Instead, it singles out thousands of loving Utah families for unfair treatment simply because of who they are. Our Constitution does not allow for such blatant discrimination.

  Chad Griffin

  Utah, Rights, Decision

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• Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

  Desmond Tutu

  Xenophobia, Racism, Slavery

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.51, Random House

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• I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Cancer

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• It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

  Damian Lewis

  Scripts, Stage, Comparison

  "Homeland: Damian Lewis adopts the patriot act". Interview with David Stubbs, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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• It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Pain, Love You

  Peter and Wendy ch. 8 (1911)

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• It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

  Rob Thomas

  Noir, World, Happens

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• The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers.

  Banksy

  Stupid, Drinking, Sneakers

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• Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Garden, Humanity

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• The media only report stupid or careless answers, not stupid or unfair questions.

  Colin Powell

  Stupid, Media, Answers

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• It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lonely, Feet, Care

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• A cowboy never takes unfair advantage - even of an enemy.

  Gene Autry

  Cowboy, Enemy, Unfair Advantage

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• We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

  A. A. Gill

  Life, Death, Insanity

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