Best violence & injustice Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.”

Problem Spiritual Values Violence Ideals Injustice Conception Consumption Consumerism Overconsumption Spiritual Values Downgrading

Author:Jacques Ellul

“It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.”

Political Individual Violence Crime Bottom Injustice Organized Indignation Offenders Organized Crime

Author:Emma Goldman

“I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.”

“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”

Thinking Soul Body Hands Eye Evil Speak Sin Cutting Violence Feet Ears Injustice Creator Tongue Lust Guilty Throat Stomach Allies Fraud Excess Traps Gluttony Soul And Body Erring

Author:Tertullian

“Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide.”

Way Sometimes Grows Violence Example Suicide Injustice Terrorism Atmosphere Thrive Administrative Committing Suicide

Book:Karmayogin

Source: Karmayogin

“Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.”

Art Facts Violence Injustice Cruelty

Book:The Manifesto of Futurism

Source: The Manifesto of Futurism

“God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the world shows no indications of such a benevolent and holy Providence. This earth appears to be a hell, or at best a planet condemned -- a sort of purgatory: it is filled with violence, tyranny and injustice, and yet God, if he exist, is absolute sovereign, and has willed that things should be as they are! -- Therefore there is no God.”

“It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.”

“Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.”

Mean Sometimes Violence Injustice Impulse Tides Unsuccessful

Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.”

Source: The Rough Riders: An Autobiography

“That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.”

Earth Faces Religion Nations Violence Injustice Pins Untruth

Book:All Religions are True

Source: All Religions are True

“My first reaction was that the adult world was fake and liars and basically worked for money and power. I didn't want to live in that world, so I spent a year, aged 17 to 18, trying to kill myself. I didn't want to live in a world of violence and injustice.”

World Want Trying Years Firsts Violence Adults Injustice Reactions Fake Liars Money And Power

Author:Patch Adams

“The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.”

Humans Evil Violence Mankind Injustice Affair Ancient Rulers Remedy Scarce

Book:An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition

Source: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition

“Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.”

Ifs Knows Wells Chance Rights Violence Protect Abuse Injustice Educated Secure Well Educated

Author:Laura Bush

“We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries. And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.”

Lying Strong Grows Justice Violence Truth Is Majority Injustice Hollow Adversaries Mockery

Book:Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.”

Stills Violence Injustice Target Outrage Wartime

Author:Zainab Salbi

“Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.”

Faces Violence Development Injustice Inequality Violence Against Women Excluded Stop Violence Against Women

Author:Zainab Salbi

“Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.”

People Humans Persons Fighting Understanding Human Beings Compassion Enemy Violence Ignorance Injustice Tendencies Exploits

Book:Anger

Source: Anger

“I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they're doing.”

People Knows Humans Faces Rights Violence Civilization Killing Injustice Human Rights Excuse Terrorism Innocent Mask Justify Tolerate Relativism Cultural Relativism

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding to violence with violence resolves nothing; it only escalates violence, anger and hatred. It is only with compassion that we can embrace and disintegrate violence. This is true in relationships between individuals as well as in relationships between nations.”

Wells Persons Individual Nations Compassion Violence Hatred Embrace Injustice Oneself Resolve Responding

Book:Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest material and cultural progress, most effectively stems violence and provides the greatest respect for human rights. According to this concept of liberalism, freedom is a single, unified concept. Political and economic liberties are as inseparable as the two sides of a medal.”

“From a political perspective, it is important to uphold certain universal principles so that, for example, you can condemn both Islamist forms of violence and injustice as well as forms of violence and injustice from other groups - some superpowers, for example, or the English Defence League, as other examples.”

Wells Important Form Political Certain Principles Violence Groups Example Perspective Universal Injustice League Defence Superpower Islamists

Author:Alison Assiter

“Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by all; there is typically a fringe of dissidents. With very rare exceptions - in fact, it's hard to think of any - they suffer in one or another way; how depends on the nature of the society.”

Thinking Way Hard Facts Suffering Violence Depends Standards Injustice Oppression Exception Aggression Another Way Fringe Dissidents

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The violence stems from injustice, because people feel they have been treated unfairly in the Middle East, whether that means military occupation, starvation under U.N. sanctions, whether it means that they have a dictatorship imposed on them, propped up by the West. This is why people turn to violence, because they have no other avenue left.”

People Mean Violence Military Injustice Dictatorship Stem

Author:Robert Fisk

“When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and checkpoints, from a sense of vulnerability and of hopelessness - attitudes are going to be affected by these measures.”

Suffering Attitude Situation Violence Injustice Vulnerability Hopelessness Imprisonment Closure

Author:Hanan Ashrawi

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