"To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it."
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"Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does."
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"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."
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"Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally."
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"However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice."
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"Nothing can make injustice just but mercy."
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"Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person."
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"No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred."
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"If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail."
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"Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice."
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"The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice."
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"Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice."
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"The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else."
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"So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?"
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"But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been."
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"Where there is no property there is no injustice."
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"God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners."
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"To do injustice is the greatest of all evils."
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"If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices."
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"It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice."
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