Leo Tolstoy Quotes

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

Much law, but little justice.

What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

I do not object to butchering quite so much if everybody gets a fair share of the hog. But when a favored few get all the ham and pork chops, and the rest of the people get just plain old sow belly, at least the people are entitled to know what they are swallowing.

There is not a criminal in a European jail, nor a cannibal in the South Sea Islands, whose indignation would not rise at the recital of what has been done.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

Those who have by an unrighteous power made merchandise of the earth, giving all to some, & none to others, declare themselves tyranicall & usurping.

I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half

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

Every man, however slenderly provided with common sense must perceive that slavery was iniquitous and attrocious ... repugnant to the laws of nature and the principles of morality and religion, and militates against the very intentions of society, and the happiness of the human race.

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.

The absence of shared sacrifice in this country shames us.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

There’s a lot of money to be made in unfairness.

Today's world is very cruel.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.

If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.

All standards are double standards.

I do feel infuriated by the things I perceive to be unfair.

I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.