Robert Forster Quotes

The only privileged persons in our country are the children

Challengers do not have a level playing field.

Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.

I know my daughter was dealt a very, very good birth card, but sometimes I feel like I want to honor the fact that she also drew a lottery that she didn't get to choose, which is that there is this thing called Eventbrite in our lives, and it sometimes takes precedence.

The capitalist society is very disorderly. The variance is great and may be on the basis of ability, luck, all sorts of happenstance, external circumstances. That upsets people's sense of order.

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty often have a share in their misfortunes.

For America's elite there is never accountability. That is for the rest of us.

This is absolutely terrible. I’m quite unprepared for it. David [his older brother] has been trained for this all his life. I’ve never even seen a state paper.

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.

It is nothing less than a shocking indictment on western society that we spend so much on ourselves and so little on those on have nothing.

The fundamental error of Europe has been to confine the light of knowledge to the wealthy and great, while the humble and the depressed have been as sedulously excluded from its participation as the wretched criminal, immured in a dungeon, is from the light of Heaven.

Poor people sometimes feel that they have no other recourse than to destroy the property of those who have it.

… a hydra-headed monster eating the flesh of the common man.

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together.

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

I do think human beings cannot be faulted for wishing to judge themselves and their lives and their achievements by others around them; that is a natural human feeling.

Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

There are millions out there who aren't getting an even break. They're being done down.

Certain people get an opportunity because they happen to be in the right place at the right time. It has no bearing on their talent. I don't think we should look at it and feel bitter about it. That's the way the cookie crumbles in all professions.

You can't be a losing team and get a new arena. That's not fair. That's not fair! That's how I see it.

There are few things more unfair than getting compared with Jurgen Klopp.

Life's unfair. You're going to have things happen to you.

Life ain't fair, period.

There are guys who are way taller than me, weigh a lot more than me, are stronger than me, not faster than me but all other aspects people get recognized and looked at and opportunities based on how they look. I've been fighting that battle my entire lifetime.