Injustice
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Injustice is the lack of or opposition to justice, either in reference to a particular event or act, or as a larger status quo.
Quotes [edit]
- When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
- Jane Welsh Carlyle, Letters and memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle (1887), p. 45 - Journal Entry, November 25, 1855.
- If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
- Che Guevara, as quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112.
- Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.
- Che Guevara, "Last Letter from Papa", Letter to all of his children written sometime in 1965, to be read in the event of his death.
- First, then, a woman will or won’t, depend on ’t;
If she will do ’t, she will; and there ’s an end on ’t.
But if she won’t, since safe and sound your trust is,
Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.- Aaron Hill, Zara, Epilogue (1735).
- To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651), pt. I, Ch. 13.
- Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651), pt. II, Ch. 31.
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963).
- Injustice we worship; all that lifts us out of the miseries of life is the sublime fruit of injustice. Every immortal deed was an act of fearful injustice; the world of grandeur, of triumph, of courage, of lofty aspiration, was built up on injustice. Man would not be man but for injustice.
- George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man (1886), ch. 10.
- Avoid cruelty and injustice for, on the Day of Judgment, the same will turn into several darknesses; and guard yourselves against miserliness; for this has ruined nations who lived before you.
- Muhammad, Riyadh-us-Salaheen, Hadith 203
- In the name of God, I put my trust in God. O God, I seek refuge in Thee lest I stray or be led astray or cause injustice or suffer injustice or do wrong or have wrong done to me!
- Muhammad, Fiqh-us-Sunnah, Volume 2, Number 67b.
- People, beware of injustice, for injustice shall be darkness on the Day of Judgment.
- Muhammad, narrated in Mosnad Ahmad, #5798, and Saheeh Al-Bukhari, #2447.
- Tragedy springs from outrage; it protests at the conditions of life. It carries in it the possibilities of disorder, for all tragic poets have something of the rebelliousness of Antigone. Goethe, on the contrary, loathed disorder. He once said that he preferred injustice, signifying by that cruel assertion not his support for reactionary political ideals, but his conviction that injustice is temporary and reparable whereas disorder destroys the very possibilities of human progress. Again, this is an anti-tragic view; in tragedy it is the individual instance of injustice that infirms the general pretence of order. One Hamlet is enough to convict a state of rottenness.
- George Steiner, The Death of Tragedy (1961), ch. V (p. 167).
- 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.
- Desmond Tutu, as quoted in Ending Poverty As We Know It : Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage (2003) by William P. Quigley, p. 8
- A promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance on the part of the promisee or a third person and which does induce such action or forbearance is binding if injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise.
