Best 618 quotes in «injustice quotes» category

It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get; for, in the one case, fortune aids, which often assists injustice; but, in the other case, sense is required. Therefore, we often see a person deficient in cleverness rise to wealth; and then, from want of sense, roll head over heels to the bottom.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

I think it's an injustice that most consumers going to the supermarket have so few options for fruit and vegetables to feed their families. There might be the appearance of abundance, but it's an illusion.

I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We learn about ourselves as individuals. Identification with Palestine is universal and not restricted to geographic boundaries. It's a question of moral and ethical positions vis-à-vis all the injustices that surround us.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that.

It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.

"It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.

It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice

It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

I've always been an escapist, I guess, and I spend so much time on the internet absorbing ideas and processing the horrors of the world that when I'm actually going to read for pleasure, it's always something ridiculous about a dragon. I'm so saturated with the injustice and torment of the real world that it's really hard for me to get myself to read anything that's even set in our universe, because I'm exhausted by our universe.

It's the same story as when we nationalized the banks. I'm not for nationalization because of the rhetoric of nationalization, or because I see in nationalization the cure-all for every injustice. I'm for nationalization in cases where it's necessary.

I understand that you're supposed to protect a fellow officer, but when injustice is happening, it's on them to speak up as well.

I've done a lot of special things in this game, and for none of that to be considered clutch, it's an injustice.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.

...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured--today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.

Justice is the sanction of established injustice.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Make injustice visible.

Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery.

Love conquers all - love is the grace that transcends any kind of injustice in the end.

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to write about abuses and injustices that have already been partially corrected - you write about it after it's over.

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years.

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice by showing what's shamefully going on.

Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.