Seneca the Younger Quotes

Unjust rule never lasts continually over time

... the keynote of government is injustice.

Monarchy is only the string that ties the robber's bundle.

Injustice can never be stood for.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Knowing as we do that American laws were not enacted for the Indian, it would be tyrannical and unjust to declare Oshkosh a malicious offender against rules which the same laws presume he could not have previously known.

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

Much law, but little justice.

Much law, but no justice.

Where there are the most laws, there is the most injustice. Summum jus, summa injuria.

Ignorant power comes in the end to the same thing as wicked power; it makes misery.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

[Objecting to administration policies:] Truth is on the scaffold, wrong is on the throne.

The tyranny we impose on others, we will eventually impose on ourselves.

… injustice breeds injustice

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

Instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. "Might makes right," and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.

Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

Nobody wants justice.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.