In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
—Bertrand Russell
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
—William Goldman
Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It’s not fair but then much of life isn’t fair. It’s how you live that matters. It’s how you deal with the bumps in the road.
—Maya Banks in Echoes at Dawn
But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren’t always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.
—Susanna Kearsley in The Winter Sea
The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.
—Christine Stevens
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
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
—A. J. Liebling
Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.
—Joan Rivers
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
—Frank Zappa
How could it be right that some people had so much, while others had so little?
—Ruth Ware in The Death of Mrs. Westaway
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
—Johnny Carson