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Injustice Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself…
- Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of…
- If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ...…
- If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth
- If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say,…
- Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
- As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
- If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly…
- 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…
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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… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of… — Richard Bach
- As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have… — David Baldacci
- Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore de Balzac
- I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by… — Birch Bayh
- Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to… — Frederic Bastiat
- The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them,… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices… — John Berger
- Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin
- The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in… — Jacob Bronowski
- The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and… — Joseph Butler