Luc de Clapiers Quotes

It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

The law is cruel.

The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Effective action is always unjust.

The rain, it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella: But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just’s umbrella.

The rankest form of hypocrisy. Laws that are good enough for everybody else ought to be good enough for us.

There's no question but that the justice system sucks.

If there is to be justice in the world, American must create it.

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

How can you stand for the national anthem of a nation that preaches and propagates, 'freedom and justice for all,' that is so unjust to so many of the people living there?

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

Are whisper networks good? That question itself is a little flat. Whisper networks arise in a vacuum of justice. They alleviate an untenable condition; they do not actually address it.

Sometimes the world didn't feel fair enough. Everything feels fair on the stage.