#unfair

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

#away #better #control #fundamentally #government

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

#beings #bought #branded #burden #discrimination

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

— Bill Watterson

#fair #favor #i #know #unfair

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#chance #couples #day #elimination #gift

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage. ↗

— April Winchell

#advantage #afraid #give #give me #i

I'll leave it to others to try to determine whether or not that was unfair or not. I'm not the nominee. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#i #leave #nominee #others #try

It's unfair." As a rule, life is unfair," I said. Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things." To Dick?" Yeah." I pulled the car over to the shoulder of the road and turned off the ignition. "That's just stupid, that kind of thinking," I said, nailing her with my eyes. "Instead of regretting what you did, you could have treated him decently from the beginning. You could've tried to be fair. But you didn't. You don't even have the right to be sorry. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#regret #unfairness #death

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

#anything #because #day #did #differently

It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy. ↗

— Bob Graham

#critical time #economy #few #focused #fundamentally

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

#being #civil #civil rights #drama #exposed