Injustice Quotes - Page 9

It's a total injustice. Things like that happen in life.

A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.

To delay is injustice.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

Surely the greatest social injustice is that 2 billion people haven't heard of God's love in Christ.

Battling evil, cruelty, and injustice allows us to retain our identity, a sense of meaning, and ultimately our freedom.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by João Gilberto Noll was available in English translation. I was confident that I could find an editor and the readership for a translation: Noll is highly respected in Brazil, and at the same time divisive, somewhat like Hilda Hilst. Neither of them enjoys the universal acclaim you might associate with Clarice Lispector, whom everyone adores, myself included. Still, I considered it a tremendous injustice that Noll had not been more widely translated and was determined to rectify it.

No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.

Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.

A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured--today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.

It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get; for, in the one case, fortune aids, which often assists injustice; but, in the other case, sense is required. Therefore, we often see a person deficient in cleverness rise to wealth; and then, from want of sense, roll head over heels to the bottom.