Mo Yan Quotes

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

The most arbitrary powers in history always hid under the claim of some impersonal logic—God, the laws of nature, the laws of the market—and they always overlooked the backlash when morally intolerable discrepancies became glaringly visible.

… a disgrace to the human race.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one

Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations

A standard criticism that is always made by the opponents of justice of the proponents of justice is that the proponents are divisive.

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

Anytime you see somebody keeping a secret, that's symptomatic that something's wrong with the society around them. That means there's discrimination or worse.

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.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

Discrimination is a disease.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.