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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. -- Gaston Caperton
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say! -- Mary Douglas
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama. -- Rachel Griffiths
Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial. -- David Gemmell
Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty. But total liberty leads to various forms of aristocracy and decay. Yet total equality leads to oppressive statism and decay. However, equality of opportunity leads to a vibrantly chaotic and creative meritocracy. -- Peter J. Carroll
It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts. -- Nick Vujicic
The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness. -- Nancy Mitford
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required. -- Philip Yancey
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price. -- Alexander Herzen
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. -- Christopher Hitchens
The failure so far of the governments of so many of the worlds most powerful countries in the face of such egregious unfairness ... to make the slightest progress on the issue of fair trade is hard to explain. -- Colin Firth
When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side. -- Philip Yancey
There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. -- Pamela Hansford Johnson
When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me. -- Bryan Stevenson
You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe. -- J. Michael Straczynski
To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire. -- Ludwig von Mises
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better. -- Eve Ensler
After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality. -- Tim Wise
On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily. -- Jessica Raine
How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? -- Ruth Rendell
The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us. -- David A. Bednar
From the time I was a little girl, I'd just always been naturally curious. And I was raised in a family that... would just get really worked up about inequities and unfairness. -- Cheri Bustos
Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology. -- Neil Kinnock
I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist. -- Ellie Kemper
I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me. -- Ruth Rendell
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody. -- Barry Diller
There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you. -- Jack Layton
Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It's the Democrat Party. -- Rush Limbaugh
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It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness. -- Harvey Fierstein
A girl doesn't notice unfairness until she falls in love -- Yoshiki Nakamura
There is unfairness in life. But seek grace to be just and be gentle. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old. -- Mary Lee Settle
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality. -- Harold S. Kushner
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. -- Thrity Umrigar
Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised. -- Ruth Hurmence Green
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness. -- John Green
It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within. -- Archibald Marwizi
The unfairness of judging others comes in that we judge them on the basis of our own values and beliefs, yet we can never exactly stand on common ground. -- Archibald Marwizi
Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around. -- Harold S. Kushner
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

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