Injustice Quotes

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

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.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

Of all injustice that is the greatest which goes under the name of law.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Delay in justice is injustice.

Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

For the world to become a better place, someone has to pay a price, I think it's glorious to sacrifice for the sake of social progress and fighting injustice.

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

Injustice can never be stood for.

The world is an enormous injustice.

So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

Injustice drives me crazy! It really upsets me when I see politicians lying.

This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.