Daniel Handler Quotes

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

Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Exploit us, but exploit us fairly.

A standard criticism that is always made by the opponents of justice of the proponents of justice is that the proponents are divisive.

I don't happen to believe, by the way, that immigration policies that single people out because of religion, for instance, are fair and just.

You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.

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

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

People don't always get what they deserve in this world.

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

When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.

I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.

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

It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

God doesn't want his people to go second-class.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.

In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.