Injustice Quotes
998 quotes by 718 authors
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of…
— Hannah Arendt
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I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.
— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the…
— Richard Bach
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As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and…
— David Baldacci
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
— Honore de Balzac
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting…
— Birch Bayh
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected…
— John Berger
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by…
— Isaiah Berlin
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
— Joseph Butler
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Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice…
— David Byrne
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
— Albert Camus
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Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
— Julian Casablancas
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It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and…
— Cesar Chavez
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Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
— Deepak Chopra
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
— Emile M. Cioran
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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