Ben Cohen Quotes

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

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

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

Equality is a monster.

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

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

… injustice breeds injustice

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

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

My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.

I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

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.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

There is no justice among men.

Because I have a little bit more, that means I'm better than you? No. Unacceptable.