#fairness

Unfairness – this is hardest to deal with, but unfortunately that is how our country works. People with connections, rich dads, beautiful faces, pedigree find it easier to make it – not just in Bollywood, but everywhere. And sometimes it is just plain luck. There are so few opportunities in India, so many stars need to be aligned for you to make it happen. Merit and hard work is not always linked to achievement in the short term, but the long term correlation is high, and ultimately things do work out. But realize, there will be some people luckier than you. In fact, to have an opportunity to go to college and understand this speech in English means you are pretty damm lucky by Indian standards. Let’s be grateful for what we have and get the strength to accept what we don’t. I have so much love from my readers that other writers cannot even imagine it. However, I don’t get literary praise. It’s ok. I don’t look like Aishwarya Rai, but I have two boys who I think are more beautiful than her. It’s ok. Don’t let unfairness kill your spark ↗

— Chetan Bhagat

#unfairness #beauty

It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right. ↗

— David Plouffe

#does #effective #effectively #fairness #going

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. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#regret #unfairness #death

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#cost #failed #fairness #god #led

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable. ↗

— Paul Scofield

#deplorable #fairness #i #music #should

Fairness is what justice really is. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#justice #really

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#ask #fairness #far #just #men

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#blacks #cherish #constitution #corrective #decency

To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America. ↗

— Peter Munk

#america #committee #creating #disseminate #facts

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. ↗

— Brit Hume

#developed #exercised #fairness #must #professional