“Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice.” MayMatterReasonDesirePassionSocialJusticePerfectImportanceInjusticeDeterminedSupremeFancyLastingRelativeConstructionFabricUnjustMomentarySubordinationContinuance Book:The Family: An Historical and Social Study Source: The Family: An Historical and Social Study
“To an American, that which deprives him of his freedom he regards as injustice, and that which allows him to enjoy that freedom he regards as justice. The concept of justice is as central to the totality of his being as freedom is, and this is not surprising, since the motivating idea behind the American Declaration of Independence was the fervent desire for justice.” IdeasDesirePoliticsEnjoyJusticeBehindsEconomyConceptsRegardIndependenceInjusticeLiberalismSurprisingDeclarationTotalityDeclaration Of IndependenceFervent Author:Ndabaningi Sithole
“Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.” LooksPoliticalDesireSocialFeltBuildingTvsInjusticeDeedsOur TimeOccupationTrendsMotivatedGrievanceHostagePerpetratorsSocial Injustice Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.” MenDesireBeliefDifficultYouthDespairSpringPreparedInjusticePrivilegeDisappointmentOptimisticAgonyOutrageHopefulness Book:The Galantrys Source: The Galantrys
“The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.” DoneDesireFortuneInjusticePhilosopherRichesMeritContemptDeniedConcealed Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld