Chris Hayes Quotes

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

Injustice drives me crazy!

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

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.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.

I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

How can you stand for the national anthem of a nation that preaches and propagates, 'freedom and justice for all,' that is so unjust to so many of the people living there?

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

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

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

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

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

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.