Injustice Quotes - page 3

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile. (Dorothy Day)
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. View quote
Amos Oz
The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics. View quote
Theodor Adorno
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. View quote
Al-Farabi
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. View quote
Edmund Burke
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one. View quote
W. H. Auden
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with. View quote
Alija Izetbegović
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. View quote
Henry Miller
Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide. (Sri Aurobindo)
It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice. View quote
Emil Cioran
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it. View quote
Cesare Pavese
However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. View quote
Alice Walker
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. View quote
Tacitus
Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice. View quote
George Washington
I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people. View quote
Coretta Scott King
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. View quote
George Santayana
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it. (Nigella Lawson)
Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. View quote
Horace Walpole
She waited for him to explain a universe in which there was so much injustice. View quote
Larry Niven
I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine. View quote
Aneurin Bevan