( O) Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it.
Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000 In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7 Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Civil Disobedience, 1849 If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!
Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD) We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
But the Sultan did not wait to hear that his orders had been carried out before going on foot, followed by his whole court to the door of the great mosque, and drawing the Sultana with his own hand out of the narrow prison where she had spent so many years, "Madam," he cried, embracing her with tears in his eyes, "I have come to ask your pardon for the injustice I have done you, and to repair it as far as I may.
No occasion justifies hatred; No injustice warrants bitterness.
Most people complain of fortune, few of nature; and the kinder they think the latter has been to them, the more they murmur at what they call the injustice of the former.
When the physician's head saw that the poison had taken effect, and that the king had only a few more minutes to live, "Tyrant," it cried, "see how cruelty and injustice are punished.
Sockman A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.
If your gods are real and if they are just, why is the world so full of injustice?
When he read about Jacob dressing himself in sheep-skins to personify Esau, and so to usurp his brother's birthright, he would clench his little fist in anger against the deceiver; when he read of tyrants and of the injustice and wickedness of the world, tears would come into his eyes, and he was quite filled with the thought of the justice and truth which must and would triumph.
