Best Injustice Quotations
998 Injustice quotes by 696 unique authors
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It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be…
— Samuel Smiles
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...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that…
— Frederic Bastiat
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It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they…
— Frederic Bastiat
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth…
— John Stuart Mill
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I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
— James Madison
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Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to…
— Clement of Alexandria
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The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless.…
— Unknown Author
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An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
— Mary McCarthy
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Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred…
— Magnus Hirschfeld
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O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty, you…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on…
— Unknown Author
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You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.
— Josemaria Escriva
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and…
— Allan Boesak
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Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm afraid he might…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,…
— Georges Bernanos
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If women don't lead, nobody else is going to, because nobody else feels as passionately as we do about injustices. We feel passionate about injustices…
— Jocelynne Scutt
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I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but…
— Michael Kirby
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Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for…
— Barbara Stocking
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to…
— William Blum
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
— Edmund Burke
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Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet…
— Ben Bagdikian
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