Johnny Carson Quotes

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

There will always be cases where one player plays, and another doesn't.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.

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

I’ve never found the truth to be fair and balanced.

What is this life by which you, who exist still incomplete, count for more than I, who exist complete already? What is this respect for you that removes respect for me? What is this right of yours to exist that takes no account of my right to exist?

Much law, but little justice.

I see no reason why big-shot crooks should go free while the poor ones go to jail.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.

Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.

I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.