Quotes About Injustice

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Unjust Discourse: To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is a talent worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

Evil brings men together.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it

But Justice, it must be observed, is a mean state not after the same manner as the forementioned virtues, but because it aims at producing the mean, while Injustice occupies both the extremes.

It seemed altogether unfair and unreasonable that the sky should be so hard.

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You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you? For me, said Sherlock Holmes, there still remains the cocaine-bottle. And he stretched his long white hand up for it.

Many men have been hanged on far slighter evidence," I remarked. "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged.

It's not fair to show someone the sun and then to banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.

They trample as many as they kill.

Is politics just another word for injustice?

It isn't fair, it isn't right, Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

Tessie Hutchinson was in the center of a cleared space by now, and she held her hands out desperately as the villagers moved in on her. It isn't fair, she said. A stone hit her on the side of the head.

Being compared to a Russian pogromchik didn't faze that German as much as hearing Brody called Sodom. Did he fly off the handle! The Russians, he said, had the right idea. If you asked him, there should be more pogroms.

I don't know how it is with other writers, but I've been treated like the lowest of the low.

love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

La société transforme le désagréable en injuste.

Even worse. Making vivid, interesting characters out of those girls and women? Mythologizing and novelizing their suffering? No." The man gives an exaggerated sigh. "I know this argument, and I don't buy it. If everyone felt the way you do, the world would remain ignorant about things it has every good reason to know. Writers have to bear witness, it's their vocation. Some would say the writer has no higher calling than to bear witness to injustice and suffering.

What's new is the idea that it's the people with the history of greatest injustice who have the greatest right to be heard, and that the time has come for the arts not just to make room for them but to be dominated by them.

It was the existence of social inequity and the evils it gave rise to that in turn gave rise to the evil of secrecy.

she had learned that the world is like a tavern - where he who has naught more to spend from is cast out at the door.