Haruki Murakami Quotes

When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

Let us hasten to break the chains of those victims who groan in their dungeons, awaiting salvation at your hands! Do not abuse their confidence! Do not turn a deaf ear to the lamentations of your brothers! Let us fly quickly to avenge the dead, to give life to the dying, freedom to the oppressed and liberty to all!

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.

Do not allow your hatred of a people to incite you not to act equitably.

Whenever he struck a blow for his own liberty he fought in open battle, and when at last he raised his black and humble hands that the shackles might be struck off, those hands were innocent of wrong against his helpless charges.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than be an oppressor. Be gentle rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Love trumps hate. Courage loves fear. Right always trumps wrong.

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.