#injustice

Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#laws #sociology #nature

Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say! ↗

— Mary Douglas

#disappointment #expectations #go #hand #i

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#arouse #breaks #community #conscience #expressing

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#arouse #breaks #community #conscience #expressing

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. ↗

— Sallust

#defeat #defeated #evil #good #good man

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#injustice #kingdom #lasts #never

Extreme law is often extreme injustice. ↗

— Terence

#injustice #law #often

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#between #capital #creation #distribution #done

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#get #hate #help #i #injustice

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#injustice #itself #justice #moment #must