Top 100 Justice Injustice Quotes
#1. The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
Plato
#2. In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.
Joko Beck
#4. The ugliness that man can do to man might cast a shadow between you and the certainty of the justice and mercy God can do to him hereafter. It takes half a lifetime to reach the spot where eternity is always visible, and the crude injustice of the hour shrivels out of sight.
Ellis Peters
#5. The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent ingenious justifications for inequality, the punishments to those who try to remedy it.
Bertrand Russell
#7. When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.
Auliq Ice
#8. 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.
Franz Kafka
#9. The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
#10. If one could be enraged by the loss of a favorite sports team, shouldn't his anger rise at the entrenchment of a scheme whereby no innocent person was safe, where self-determination was a crime punished by the vagaries of an opaque & impervious justice system?
Ausma Zehanat Khan
#11. One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#12. Who said anything about justice? There's no such thing. But injustice is as much a part of life as the weather.
Humphrey Cobb
#13. An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
Mary McCarthy
#14. If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#15. It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#16. The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.
Sophie Swetchine
#17. But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.
Howard Zinn
#18. Love is injustice, but justice doesn't suffice.
Albert Camus
#19. Without peace, justice and freedom, the true value and dignity of mankind disappears.
Auliq Ice
#20. Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
Aristophanes
#21. Still, let us not disarm, even in unsatisfactory times. Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. The world will not get better on its own.
Eric Hobsbawm
#22. God is just!' said a carping theologian to me the other day. 'Yes,' I answered, 'and he cannot be pleased that you should call that justice which is injustice, and attribute it to him!
George MacDonald
#24. To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To obtain and possess the kingdom, the power, and the glory by nonviolent justice is to worship God.
John Dominic Crossan
#25. The only way to rise above is to rise above. The only way to respond to wrong is with right. The only way to deal with injustice is to be just.
Nafisa Haji
#26. If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice.
R.C. Sproul
#27. The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
Patrick W. Corrigan
#28. What are world needs is not more violence, hatred and injustice that keeps consuming mankind but love,peace and justice for all of humanity to bask in.
Timothy Pina
#29. There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.
Chrysippus
#30. The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that there has been an injustice.
Alain De Botton
#31. I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.
Nate Parker
#32. We can choose to move with God, further into justice and wholeness, or we can choose to prop up the world's dead systems, baptizing injustice and power in sacred language.
Sarah Bessey
#33. Injustice is relativelyl easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H.L. Mencken
#34. The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice.
Marty Rubin
#35. As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#37. For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange of ideas, justice will prevail over injustice, tolerance over intolerance and progress over reaction.
Hillary Clinton
#38. The line between justice and injustice, between things being right and things not being right, can't be drawn between "us" and "them." It runs right down through the middle of each one of us.
N. T. Wright
#39. If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.
Horace
#40. In the real-life struggles between right and wrong, justice and injustice, life and death, we all realize that truth does matter. Jesus Christ repeatedly talked about the supreme value of truth. While
Ravi Zacharias
#41. Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
#42. I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
W.S. Gilbert
#43. Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.
Orrin Woodward
#44. I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.
Michael Jackson
#45. In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.
James C. Scott
#46. Nothing frustrates people more than a cocky guy who's still winning.
Criss Jami
#47. Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.
Subhas Chandra Bose
#48. Whenever you deny the hand of Justice, Violence almost always steps in.
Suzy Kassem
#49. We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.
Blaise Pascal
#50. It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#51. Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Johnson
#52. To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#53. Their voices meld into a cloudy rumble of their own, and I ponder Mira's and Aidan's secrets and imagine the injustice that threads through other lives, injustice that has no face because it is hidden away in a dark, shameful place, hidden for years in hopes of making it untrue.
Mary E. Pearson
#54. We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#55. A king who is renowned for mercy," said the Arobern, with heavy irony, "must also be renowned in equal measure for injustice.
Rachel Neumeier
#56. Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?
Martin Luther King Jr.
#57. Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
Elihu Root
#59. Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.
John Berger
#60. True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.
Miguel Ruiz
#61. The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.
Heraclitus
#62. Heal the past and you'll heal the present." Kharis Macey
Kharis Macey
#64. I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.
Lucretia Mott
#65. It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.
Joyce Rachelle
#66. We may add that it is not an act of justice but of foolish injustice to pretend the sexes are the same. Justice is exercised in respectfully providing for the due needs of each.
J. Budziszewski
#67. If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
Heraclitus
#68. If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu
#69. Maybe there is no justice, only different degrees of injustice.
Marty Rubin
#70. We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.
Herbert Hoover
#71. Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don't see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment.
Ayi Kwei Armah
#72. There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Montesquieu
#73. Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.
Magnus Hirschfeld
#74. A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.
Al-Farabi
#75. We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#76. At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
Richard Rorty
#77. Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.
Poul Hartling
#78. Gender healing and reconciliation consciously invokes this universal love of the heart, which in the end has the capacity to overcome the very real and formidable challenges of gender oppression and injustice that have tormented human societies for literally thousands of years
William Keepin
#79. It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.
Charles Peguy
#80. The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.
Allan Boesak
#81. The demand for justice always exceeds the supply.
Marty Rubin
#82. Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable.
Pope Francis
#83. Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)
Andrew Young
#84. I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.
C.S. Lewis
#85. Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.
James J. Corbett
#86. There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel
#87. One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.
H.L. Mencken
#88. The only government that I recognize
and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army
is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.
Henry David Thoreau
#89. We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.
Jesse Kellerman
#90. There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.
Epicurus
#91. Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
William Shakespeare
#93. Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Albert Camus
#94. They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way.
Joseph O'Connor
#95. The logic of the rebel is to want to serve justice so
as not to add to the injustice of the human condition, to insist on plain language so as not to increase the
universal falsehood, and to wager, in spite of human misery, for happiness.
Albert Camus
#96. If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.
Ben Cohen
#97. Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#98. Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.
Gary Steiner
#99. Harming one's unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.
J.S.B. Morse
