J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

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

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.

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?

A sense of grievance can accumulate with the success of conflict no matter how it has been resolved.

A point concerning property, which ought, for the reasons I have just mentioned, to be most speedily decided, frequently exercises the wit of successions of lawyers, for many generations .… But the question concerning a man’s life, that great question in which no delay ought to be counted tedious, is commonly determined in twenty-four hours at the utmost. It is not to be wondered at that injustice and absurdity should be inseparable companions.

It is certain two nations cannot engage in hostilities but one party must be guilty of injustice

Washington, D.C., puts enormous burdens on people who, at the end of the day, are just humans.

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

The world can be very cruel.

The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in the world.

All of us have people in our lives who drive us crazy. We've spent hours reliving the unfair, unappreciative, inconsiderate treatment they have inflicted on us. But getting mad at this person makes just about as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.

Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

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

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

But now you're unhappy," he pointed out. "And?" I challenged. "That doesn't seem fair." He shrugged, but his eyes were still intense. I laughed without humour. "Hasn't anyone told you? Life isn't fair." "I believe I have heard that somewhere before," he agreed dryly.

And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.