Unfair Quotes

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

Reason, Stand, Quite

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

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

Life, Money, Getting

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

Why, Fair, Favor

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

War, Death, Pain

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

Men, Smart, Advantage

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
Lance Armstrong

Winning, Since, Advantage

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
Albert Ellis

Human, Condition, Humans

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
P. J. O'Rourke

Training, Soldiers, Police

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

Human, Racism, Slavery

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

Faith, May, Him

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

God, Stupidity, Fact

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

Nature, Blame, Learned

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.
Nelson A. Miles

Wrong, Party, Committed

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Understand, Call, Willing

Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.
Bill O'Reilly

Cannot, Jobs, Hopes

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
Steve Forbes

Life, Money, Power

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

Put, Stereotype, Boxes

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.
Tim Allen

Mean, Place, Fair

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.
Tim Robbins

Someone, Mean, Wrong

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
George Clooney

Women, Men, Incredibly

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
Arthur C. Brooks

Money, Government, Nothing

I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.
Liza Minnelli

Hard, Sound, Worked

It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is.
Ron Fournier

Nation, Show, Facts

I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.
Ang Lee

Hope, Down, Give

If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
Benjamin Carson

God, Fair, Thinks

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
Iain Duncan Smith

After, System, Welfare

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Job, Treat, Anyone

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
Miriam Makeba

Life, Music, Long

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

Stage, Comparison, Script

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