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Injustice Quotes by Plato
- Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
- Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others…
- Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
- The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
- Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
- To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
- To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the…
- Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
- The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
- But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death.…
- SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS:…
- The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
- He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
More Injustice Quotes
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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
- 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