105 quotes found
“And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?”
“[S]ome score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be --- as here they are --- mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slip...”
“It can happen sometimes, with those who brood on an injustice, that a taste for revenge can usefully combine with a sense of obligation.”
“It's easier, somehow, if there's a reason for tragedy - lust or jealousy or hatred or revenge. We can find in these explanations an emotional tenor commensurate with the gravity of the act. There's...”
“But mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice.”
“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”
“You say that Caesar Borgia suffered the just punishment of his crimes. He was destroyed not by his misdeeds, but by circumstances over which he had no control. His wickedness was an irrelevant acci...”
“Stand up for what you believe in, even if you stand alone.”
“The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)”
“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.”
“That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have t...”
“There are many injustices in the world, but some are worse than others. You can hate someone because he's poor, because of the clothes he wears, or for his political views. But a person can change ...”
“It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless i...”
“Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.”
“I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.”
“Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we saw it as a dull shape coming into focus.”
“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
“[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.”
