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Quotes About Injustice

Aliás, é engraçado como o infortúnio do mundo provém tão freqüentemente de homens baixos: são muito mais enérgicos, de gênio muito pior do que os indivíduos altos.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Then what exactly is the war for?" asks Tjaden. Kat shrugs his shoulders. "There must be some people to whom the war is useful." "Well, I'm not one of them," grins Tjaden. "Not you, nor anybody else here.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
How pointless all human thoughts, words and deeds must be, if things like this are possible! Everything must have been fraudulent and pointless if thousands of years of civilization weren't even able to prevent this river of blood, couldn't stop these torture chambers existing in their hundreds of thousands. Only a military hospital can really show you what war is.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I bet there are other people behind it all who are making a profit out of the war - Detering
~ Erich Maria Remarque
They used to tie us to a tree, but that is forbidden now. In many ways we are treated quite like men. An
~ Erich Maria Remarque
And this is only one hospital, one single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is. I
~ Erich Maria Remarque
the wrong people do the fighting
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Yes, I think bitterly, that's how it is with us, and with all poor people. They don't dare to ask the price, but worry themselves dreadfully beforehand about it; but the others, for whom it is not important, they settle the price first as a matter of course.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The misery of millions is too big a price to pay for the heroics of a few.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I tell you it is the vilest baseness to use horses in the war.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, one single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
At a time when hundreds of men have been put to death without trial or any sort of evidence of guilt, and when the population literally trembles with fear, animals have rights guaranteed them which men and women cannot think of expecting.
~ Erik Larson
A large rubber company was told it must provide proof that it had no Jewish employees before it could submit bids to municipalities.
~ Erik Larson
When the conversation turned to Germany's persecution of Jews, Colonel House urged Dodd to do all he could "to ameliorate Jewish sufferings" but added a caveat: "the Jews should not be allowed to dominate economic or intellectual life in Berlin as they have done for a long time." In this, Colonel House expressed a sentiment pervasive in America, that Germany's Jews were at least partly responsible for their own troubles. Dodd
~ Erik Larson
He told Hitler, "There is evident injustice in the French attitude; but defeat in war is always followed by injustice." He raised the example of the aftermath of the American Civil War and the North's "terrible" treatment of the South.
~ Erik Larson
It was because I had seen so much of injustice and domineering little groups, as well as heard the complaints of so many of the best people of the country, that I ventured as far as my position would allow and by historical analogy warned men as solemnly as possible against half-educated leaders being permitted to lead nations into war.
~ Erik Larson
I have examined the laws of the United States carefully and I do not find any law which says that a white man shall be punished for killing a Chinaman.
~ Erik Larson
Evil prevails when good people do nothing.
~ Erin Gruwell
It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.
~ Erin Gruwell
They say America is the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave but what's so free about a land where people get killed?
~ Erin Gruwell
You will die like a dog for no good reason.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Half a million dead wops And he got a kick out of it The son of a bitch.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You are going to die like a dog for no good reason
~ Ernest Hemingway
Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.
~ Ernest Hemingway