Ogden Nash Quotes

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

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

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty often have a share in their misfortunes.

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.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.