Unfair Quotes - Page 8

• I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

  Joy Davidman

  Sight, Joy, Doe

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• "Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

  Christopher Peterson

  Moving, People, Psychology

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• Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Perception, Moments, Hindsight

  Edwin S. Shneidman (2004). “Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind”, p.160, Oxford University Press

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• Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Pain, Forgiving, Way

  Lewis B. Smedes, Jeff Crosby (2007). “Days of Grace Through the Year”, p.237, InterVarsity Press

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• Life isn’t fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don’t need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Trying, Needs, Quitting

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 25, 2012

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• God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.

  Joel Osteen

  Loss, Stolen, Said

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• There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.

  Meghan Daum

  Forgiving, Asking, Sin

  "On False Sentimentality, Womanhood, and Getting with the Program: A Conversation with Meghan Daum". Work in Progress interview, fsgworkinprogress.com.

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• The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy in 1947, I was told that I ought not to use my pistol in their training program because it was not fair. Maybe the first thing one should demand of his sidearm is that it be unfair.

  Jeff Cooper

  Eye, Gun, Choices

  "Guns & Ammo" Magazine, January 2002.

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• It is annoying. The work we do is not getting the credit it deserves because we are not winning silverware. It is unfair because I think we have more merit as a club than those who have built their teams with millions of pounds whereas Arsenal have brought in young footballers, who have come here to play a certain kind of football and who have developed.

  Samir Nasri

  Football, Team, Winning

  "Without our injuries Arsenal would be top of league, says Samir Nasri", April 20, 2010.

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• That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems like too much bother. The appropriate response when somebody demands a change in that unfair system is to listen, rather than turn away or yell, as a child might, that it's not your fault. Of course it isn't your fault. I'm sure you're lovely. That doesn't mean you don't have a responsibility to do something about it.

  Laurie Penny

  Children, Mean, Responsibility

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• I never thought of myself as a sex symbol. I just do the cover of magazines. I think it’s really unfair men or people in the world think you can’t be both – you can’t be a sex symbol and a serious businessperson. Who says I can’t be both? Who says I can’t do the cover of Maxim and run a production company? Women are complex. Women are beautiful and intellectual and spiritual and social and entrepreneurial. They’re everything. And I think I’m a great example of that.

  Eva Longoria

  Beautiful, Running, Spiritual

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• It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We don't know their stories, their histories, their real live human feelings. We don't know their favorite movies and best memories and what makes them afraid. It is unfair to take one fact, one thing they've said or we heard they said, or one thing they wrote, or someone else's experience, or a group they identify with and make a character sketch. If people did that to us, the picture would be so woefully incomplete, we wouldn't even recognize our own description.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Memories, Real, Character

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• I ask you to uphold the values of America and remember why so many have come here. We're in a fight for our principles, and our first responsibility is to live by them. No one should be singled out for unfair treatment or unkind words because of their ethnic background or religious faith.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Responsibility, Fighting

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• All I ever wanted was an unfair advantage

  Garrison Wynn

  Unfair Advantage, Advantage, Wanted

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• It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Being Yourself, Children, Responsibility

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

  Marvin Olasky

  Opportunity, Needs, Quota

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• If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.

  Joseph Murphy

  Spiritual, Peace, Mean

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.163, Penguin

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• I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

  Fred Melamed

  Strong, Jewish Tradition, Keeping Your Mouth Shut

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• One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist.

  Linda Blair

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Giving, Benefits

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• To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.

  Kirk Cameron

  Bullying, Men, Ideas

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• Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans.

  Artur Davis

  Party, Impact, Issues

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• Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

  Bill Delahunt

  Bricks And Mortar, Community, Lines

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• Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

  B. F. Skinner

  Loss, Men, Views

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.156, Hackett Publishing

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• The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

  Norm Dicks

  Believe, Government, Competition

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