Injustice proverbs

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◆ People don't always get what they deserve in this world.

- Lemony Snicket99

◆ The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

- George Carlin99

◆ Rage — whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders' insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us — is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.

- Bonnie Myotai Treace99

◆ Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

- Honoré de Balzac99

◆ In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn99

◆ If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

- Charles Darwin99

◆ I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

- Hugo Claus99

◆ 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.

- Charles Dickens99

◆ Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.

- Christine de Pizan99

◆ In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

- Charles Bukowski99

◆ It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off

- Eric Bogosian99

◆ Injustice in the end produces independence.

- Voltaire99

◆ Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.

- William Faulkner99

◆ War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

- John Stuart Mill99