"So you would rather suffer an injustice than……" — Socrates
"So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?"
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331 Quotes by Socrates
Socrates has 331 quotes on this site.
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the…
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the…
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in…
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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More Injustice Quotes
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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…
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I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— Joseph Butler
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