Unfair quotes
94 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"We've all been acculturated into accepting the inevitability of wrongful convictions, unfair sentences, racial bias, and racial disparities and discrimination against the poor."
"The world is an inherently unfair place."
"I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell."
"Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for."
"To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair."
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"Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair."
"Keeping your emotions all locked up is something that’s unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it."
"The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence."
"Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair."
"First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person."
"It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only."
"Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales."
"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."
"Penalties are awful, unfair, but what else is there?"
"If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit."
"Try to let what is unfair teach you."
"If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?"
"How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy."
"Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair."
"It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is"
"It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory."
"The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed."
"Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle."
