Injustice Quotes - page 2

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice. (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. View quote
Davy Crockett
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. View quote
Ann Landers
One mans justice is anothers injustice one mans beauty anothers ugliness one mans wisdom anothers folly. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary. View quote
Che Guevara
It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one. View quote
Socrates
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself. View quote
Stuart Wilde
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words. (Ulrich Beck)
We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice. View quote
F. W. de Klerk
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
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 age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. View quote
Birch Bayh
Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person. View quote
Ike Turner
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. View quote
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice. View quote
Pythagoras
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings. View quote
Rollo May
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. View quote
Demosthenes
The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice. View quote
Martha Gellhorn
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice. (Thomas Paine)
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, break the law. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Try to imagine a regulation of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property. If you cannot reconcile these contradictions, then you must conclude that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil. View quote
Marcus Aurelius