Quotes with injustice

  • Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
  • 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.
  • When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.
  • Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
  • Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
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  • Horace Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Anthony Hope A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Alice Walker All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bobby Seale All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
    Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Seneca Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bella Thorne Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Aaron Hill First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't;
    If she will do 't, she will; and there 's an end on 't.
    But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,
    Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.
    Zara (1735)
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Edmund Burke Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Plato He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Martin Luther King I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Daniel O'Connell I would walk from here to Drogheda and back to see the man who is blockhead enough to expect anything except injustice from an English Parliament.
    Daniel O'Connell
     
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  • Bella Freud I've always been interested in justice. I think what is happening to the Palestinians represents the ultimate injustice. I also hate bullies and the effect of them, the way people side with them out of fear. The Israelis are the schoolyard bullies, with England and the United States siding with them.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Democritus If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
    Democritus
    Greek scientist, astronomist and philosopher (460 - 380)
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