Haruki Murakami Quotes

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

Start trying to work out who deserves what, and before long you'll spend the rest of your days weeping for each and every person in the world.

Effective action is always unjust.

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

We understand the concept of equality, that we all want to be equal. But I think this is absolutely not true. I don't think anybody really wants to be equal. Everybody wants to be more equal.

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.

No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

We must take the profit out of prejudice.

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

Justice always has context.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.