Quotes About Injustice

We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because we love ourselves so much we don't want to keep paying for the injustice.

This is the first step in using the truth as a scalpel: You find that the injustice that created a wound is no longer true, right now, in this moment. You discover that perhaps what you believe hurt you so badly was never true. Even if it was true, it doesn't mean that now it is true. By using the truth, you open the wound and see the injustice from a new perspective.

Humans use fear to domesticate humans, and our fear increases with each experience of injustice.

Humans use fear to domesticate humans, and our fear increases with each experience of injustice. The sense of injustice is the knife that opens a wound in our emotional body. Emotional poison is created by our reaction to what we consider injustice.

lot of emotional poison from an injustice that comes from her husband.

Hemos de perdonar a los que creemos que se han portado mal con nosotros, no porque se lo merezcan, sino porque sentimos tanto amor por nosotros mismos que no queremos continuar pagando por esas injusticias.

The Judge decrees, and the Victim suffers the guilt and punishment. But who says there is justice in this dream? True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.

Throughout the world we see human suffering, anger, revenge, addictions, violence in the street, and tremendous injustice.

The sense of injustice is like a knife that opens an emotional wound in the mind. Then, according to our reaction to the injustice, the wound may get infected with emotional poison.

True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake

If you look at old Earth's bloodiest periods, there are several patterns that repeat. One is missionaries come. Missionaries get killed. Army comes. Houses and crops get burned. Natives get killed. And the flag comes last. Suddenly a whole lot of local folks find themselves with an empress or kaiser or president they never voted for.

Many times had Spock listened patiently while Sarek recounted, with thinly veiled bitterness, the manner in which humans, immediately following their first contact with the crew of a Vulcan scout ship, had captured the scouts and tortured them into divulging the secrets of interstellar navigation. In short order, the Terrans had turned the Vulcans' knowledge to their own aims, laying the foundation for their nascent star empire.

El fin de todo esto es trágico: el que hace muy poco se sabía con el poder en las manos, se encuentra de pronto inmóvil en una caja de madera; y los que lo rodean, conscientes de su inutilidad, le queman en un horno.

Talia ta, szanowne obywatele, znajduje siÄ™ tera w siódmym rzÄ™dzie, u obywatela Parczewskiego, jak raz miÄ™dzy banknotem trzyrublowym a wezwaniem do sÄ…du w sprawie o zalegÅ'e alimenty dla obywatelki Zielkowej.

Pogroms were whipped up every minute and people were murdered daily, especially Jews of course.

We mustn't be envious, comrades. There's twenty-two dachas4 in all, and only seven more being built, and there's three thousand of us in Massolit.' 'Three thousand one hundred and eleven,' someone put in from the corner. 'So you see,' the Bos'n went on, 'what can be done? Naturally, it's the most talented of us that got the dachas . . .

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

It is much more important to dig a half-buried crow out of the ground, he said, than to send petitions to a president.

Almost from childhood, she knew that a concentration camp was nothing exceptional or startling but something very basic, a given into which we are born and from which we can escape only with the greatest of efforts.

Ma è proprio il debole che deve saper essere forte e andar via, quando il forte è troppo debole per poter fare del male al debole.

For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant. Even when the trial is of dead people, the point is to kill them off a second time: by burning their books; by removing their names from the schoolbooks; by demolishing their monuments; by rechristening the streets that bore their names.

Aceasta impacare cu Hitler tradeaza profunda perversiune morala, inerenta unei lumi intemeiate esential pe inexistenta intoarcerii, caci in aceasta lume totul e dinainte iertat si, in consecinta, totul e ingaduit cu cinism, » (p. 8)

O bom Deus foi injusto ao dar um rosto tão belo àquele imbecil e pernas curtas a Lermontov. Mas se o poeta não ter pernas compridas, possui um espírito sarcástico que o puxa para as alturas.

Il est beaucoup plus important de déterrer une corneille enterrée vivante que d'envoyer une pétition à un président.