Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

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

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

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

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

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

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

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.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

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

Equal Rights

Effective action is always unjust.

Equality is a monster.

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.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

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

And Justice for Some

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