Alfred Doblin Quotes

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.

Effective action is always unjust.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

The law is cruel.

American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

One Law for the Lion and the Ox is oppression.

Comedy is allied to justice.

We are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

You ask me, brother, why am I in here. Brother, why are you not in here?

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

The highest law is often the greatest wrong..

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.