Injustice Quotes - Page 13

• Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

  Edward Bond

  Taken, Order, Law

  Edward Bond (2014). “Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion”, p.5, A&C Black

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• How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?

  Stephen Fry

  Pain, Stupid, Mean

  YouTube Chanel "Secular Talk"/ "Stephen Fry Annihilates God", www.youtube.com. January 31, 2015.

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• Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

  Russell Brand

  Mean, Tides, Violence

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.82, Ballantine Books

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• It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Law, Suffering, World

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• It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Father, Broken

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.280, Stanford University Press

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• Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, People, Able

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

  Plato

  Evil, Justice, Virtue

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• ... the keynote of government is injustice.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Anarchy

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.31, 谷月社

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• Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Law, Names, Letters

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• Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Stupid, Writing, Race

  "Eighty-Five from the Archive: Dorothy Parker" by Erin Overbey, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2010.

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• Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

  Tony Blair

  Attitude, Loss, Opportunity

  "Tony Blair's Mansion House speech: full text". www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2005.

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• Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Country, Names, Charity

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• Acts of injustice done
  Between the setting and the rising sun
  In history lie like bones, each one.

  W. H. Auden

  Lying, Rising, Done

  "The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts". Play by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, 1936.

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• Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

  Paul Robeson

  Minorities, May, Causes

  Paul Robeson (2001). “The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939”, Wiley

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• Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.

  Thomas Paine

  Aristocracy, Tyranny

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.74

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• If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths - we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world.

  Hélder Câmara

  Fighting, Peaceful, Rotten

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• There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God." he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you." When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.

  David Wolpe

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Men, May, Sake

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• It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

  Rosa Parks

  Justice, Accepting, Protest

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• If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Limits, Crime, Ifs

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

  Hugo Chavez

  Christian, Jesus, Children

  "Chavez reveals personal side, criticizes U.S.", www.cnn.com. September 25, 2009.

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• We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Peace, Hate

  Song: The Folk Song Army, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Country, Fighting, John Paul Ii

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• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  People, Rise Against

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• [Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Death, Pain, Sorrow

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