{"quotes":[{"text":"Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.","author":"Barbara Kingsolver","tags":["life","unfairness"],"id":22514,"author_id":"Barbara+Kingsolver"},{"text":"One of the privileges of being an athlete is that on days when I have practice and games, I’m present whether I’m present or not. It’s not fair, but that’s the system. What can I do about it?","author":"Erin O'Riordan","tags":["athletics","high-school","privilege","sports","unfairness"],"id":25036,"author_id":"Erin+O%27Riordan"},{"text":"Be terrified. Nothing in life is certain. It does not owe you anything, and if it decides to take something from you it will. You must accept this truth. Accept the dreadful possibility that your blind optimism is merely a fancied lie.","author":"H.S. Crow","tags":["blind-faith","falsehood","hardship","lies","life","optimism","terror","unfairness"],"id":47235,"author_id":"H.S.+Crow"},{"text":"Stand up for your conscience. Use light to reveal what is concealed in the darkness. Use truth to fight the lies, and the heart to fight the mind.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["conceal","conscience","corrupt-corruption","dark","darkness","fair","fairness","heart","hidden","just","justice","lies","light","mind","reveal","right","right-and-wrong","stand-up","stand-up","standing-alone","standing-up","take-a-stand","truth","unfair","unfairness","unjust","wrong"],"id":69032,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"It's the injustice that I hate, more than anything,' he'd said to Smee one night, his eyes red and glassy, slurring his words, his head lolling as he tried to focus. He'd vomited, and then promptly passed out on a bush. 'I hate the world that does not work out fair.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["captain-hook","injustice","peter-pan","tiger-lily","unfairness"],"id":106468,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"},{"text":"Stand up for what is fair against the unfair.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["corrupt-corruption","fair","fairness","just","justice","right","right-and-wrong","stand-up","stand-up","standing-alone","truth","unfair","unfairness","unjust","wrong"],"id":137044,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["better","cruelty","deed","demand","good","reward","unfairness"],"id":140197,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"Believing in your standards for a square deal, even when there's no way to get it, is what allows you to create boundaries and take independent action.","author":"Michael I. Bennett","tags":["boundaries","independence","standards","unfairness"],"id":144929,"author_id":"Michael+I.+Bennett"},{"text":"It's unfair.'As a rule, life is unfair,' I said.Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things.'To Dick?'Yeah.'I pulled the car over to the shoulder of the road and turned off the ignition. 'That's just stupid, that kind of thinking,' I said, nailing her with my eyes. 'Instead of regretting what you did, you could have treated him decently from the beginning. You could've tried to be fair. But you didn't. You don't even have the right to be sorry.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["death","regret","unfairness"],"id":148106,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"It was then that Hook bit him.Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["children","unfairness"],"id":198260,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}