John F. Kennedy Quotes

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

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

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

here is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic, and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.'

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.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

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

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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

Equality is a monster.

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

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

Life ain't fair, period.

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 don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

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.

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

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

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

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