#injustice

The world is an enormous injustice. ↗

— Jules Romains

#injustice #world

It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it. ↗

— Erin Gruwell

#injustice #negative-attitude #negative-thoughts #negativity #overcome

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity. ↗

— George Carlin

#caterpillars #humor #injustice #work #humor

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things. ↗

— Hugo Claus

#injustice #life #restlessness #unfairness #unhappiness

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons. ↗

— Criss Jami

#backwards #clever #confusion #conservatism #conservative

At its most basic, the logic of 'meritocracy' is ironclad: putting the most qualified, best equipped people into the positions of greates responsibility and import...But my central contention is that our near-religious fidelity to the meritocratic model comes with huge costs. We overestimate the advantages of meritocracy and underappreciate its costs, because we don't think hard enough about the consequences of the inequality it produces. As Americans, we take it as a given that unequal levels of achievement are natural, even desirable. Sociologist Jermole Karabel, whose work looks at elite formation, once said he 'didnt think any advanced democracy is as obsessed with equality of opportunity or as relatively unconcerned with equality of condition' as the United States. This is our central problem. And my proposed solution for correcting the excesses of our extreme version of meritocracy is quite simple: make America more equal ↗

— Christopher L. Hayes

#injustice #meritocracy #equality

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. ↗

— Richard Bach

#butterfly #calls #caterpillar #depth #end

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#anywhere #else #hates #injustice #land

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state. ↗

— Martin McGuinness

#beside #exist #injustices #leave #northern

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#easy #injustice #justice #relatively #sting