Robert Dallek Quotes

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

The injustice to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles.

My mind revolts and my soul cannot support the weight of so much evil: theft, rape, pillage, deaths, and murders, fires and devastation; the virgin violated, the cry of the widow and the orphan; the father armed against his son and each one looking for his brother to kill him; of those who have migrated; of the thousands who have fled; of the bodies stretched out in the public streets; of the bones which cover the fields and of so much blood shed on Venezuela’s soil.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

The capitalist society is very disorderly. The variance is great and may be on the basis of ability, luck, all sorts of happenstance, external circumstances. That upsets people's sense of order.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you at night.

I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.

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.

I do not believe as Martin Luther King did, that the arc of history bends towards justice. I see the arc of history bending towards chaos or the unknown.

We're not yet in a multipolar world. We are in a chaotic world.... We live in a world where the dangers are real for all of us.

Mexico scares me. There's no law, there's wild dogs and people driving their ATVs down the street. I like to know I can walk down the street and not be arrested for something dumb and have to pay to get my way out.

You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.