Peter Akinola Quotes

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

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

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?

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

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

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.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

Much law, but little justice.

What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors.

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

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

All men are equal before God, but all men are not equal before men because the differences are obvious.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

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

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.

Fiddler is keenly aware that justice and law don't necessarily equate.

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.

You can't just be letting certain people get away with certain things and not others.

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

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