Quotes About Injustice

A young man didn't bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: He brought her stories from the wider world, where men grappled with demons of desire, and monstrous injustice.

The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well.

WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards

And I survived, while other men around me died. They were better men than I am, most of them: better men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else´s hate, or love, or indifference.

The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, is that it works so well.

Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims

She was a river, not a stone, and every day was another curve in tomorrow's plain. She was pulled from a family she loved, and that loved her, she thought, until they took the word of a man, a friend and neighbour, who raped her. Years later, when she killed the rapist and went on the run, she severed every connection to her own life. She was runaway tough, a dancing cat, a green witch, and safe from everything but herself, like me.

In Prabaker's way of courtship, a young man didn't bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: he brought her stories from the wider world, where men grappled with demons of desire, and monstrous injustice.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

It was pretty depressing. There's a lot of people here who want the war to go on forever, and they don't give a shit who's getting killed or who's doing the killing.

It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.

E' un bene conoscere cosa cè di sbagliato al mondo, ma è altrettanto importante sapere che per quanto il mondo sia sbagliato tu non puoi cambiarlo, ma vorrei credere che se agiamo nel modo giusto tutto può cambiare in meglio.

You understand and accept it when the bad guys work you over. But when the good guys use handcuffs to chain you to a wall, and then take turns to stomp and kick you, it's the whole system, it's the whole world, that's breaking your bones. And then there was the screaming. The other men, the other prisoners, screaming. Every night.

Ask any man with a long-enough experience of prisons, and he'll tell you that all it takes to harden a man's heart is a system of justice.

Everything leaves a mark. Every blow echoes in the forest inside. Every injustice cuts a branch, and every loss is a fallen tree. The beautiful courage of us, the hope that defines our kind, is that we go on, no matter how much life wounds us. We walk. We face the sea and the wind and the salted truth of death, and we go on.

All political systems favour the powerful rich over the defenceless poor.

The rich in any country, and any system, always got the best justice money could buy.

It's good to know what's wrong with the world,' Karla said, after a while. 'But it's just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can't change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Then the smoulders of shame and guilt flamed into anger, became fist-tightening rage at the unfairness of it: What kind of a government, I thought, what kind of a system allows suffering like this?

the crime of my existence in the world, was invisible and inconceivable.

Când acÈ›ion?m, chiar cu cele mai bune intenÈ›ii, când ne amestec?m în cursul lumii, risc?m de fiecare dat? s? provoc?m un alt dezastru care s-ar putea s? nu fie direct înf?ptuit de noi, dar care n-ar fi posibil f?r? intervenÈ›ia noastr?. Unele dintre cele mai rele nedrept??i au fost provocate de oamenii care au încercat la un moment dat s? schimbe lucrurile.

Hypocrisy is just another kind of cruelty.

Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.

People say that money is the root of all evil. But it's not true. It's the other way round. Money isn't the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. There's no such thing as clean money. All the money in the world is dirty, in some way, because there's no clean way to make it. If you get paid in money, somebody, somewhere is suffering for it.