Notable Quotable 225

Mar 11, 2024

Evil is bad sold as good, wrong sold as right, injustice sold as justice. Like the coat of a virus, a thin veil of right can disguise enormous wrong and confer an ability to infect others.

- John Hartung

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

- Aristotle, Politics

Most people will not stand up to injustice unless their comfort of living is severely threatened. This is because today's man does not care for the outside world so long as he has a roof over his head and four walls to contain his own.

- Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

The defender of injustice is part of it.

- Kamaran Ihsan Salih

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There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

- Charles-Louis de Secondat

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.

- Christine de Pizan, Der Sendbrief vom Liebesgott

Qui tacet consentire videtur is Latin for 'Silence gives consent.' When we say nothing, when we do nothing, we are consenting to these trespasses against us.

- Roxane Gay

Hate what the world seeks, and seek what it avoids.

- St. Ignatius of Loyola

Injustice in the end produces independence.

- Voltaire