Quotes on Injustice

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

Author: Gloria Arroyo

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Author: Joseph Butler

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

Author: James Callaghan

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

Author: Dorothy Day

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Author: Democritus

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

Author: William Feather

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

Author: Bram Fischer

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Author: Robert Frost

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Author: Audrey Hepburn

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

Author: Junius

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Author: Pauline Kael

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

Author: Walter Kaufmann

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

Author: Nigella Lawson

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Author: John Locke

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?

Author: Wynton Marsalis

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.

Author: H. Mencken

We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

Author: Ed Miliband

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Author: Plato

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Author: Plato

The world is an enormous injustice.

Author: Jules Romains

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Author: Lucius Seneca

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Author: Sophocles

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Author: Henry Thoreau

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

Author: Benjamin Tucker

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Author: Desmond Tutu

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

Author: Stuart Wilde

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

Author: Susannah York