Trevor Paglen Quotes

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

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

On stage, I find anger at the unfairness of the world easily.

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.

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.

I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane.

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.

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.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

… injustice breeds injustice

The poor man … will be swayed by his sense of injury against the men who try to hold what they have improperly won… the most awful passions will be let loose.

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues.

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

I want to understand the anger in the world.

I must be intellectually honest and say there is a great justice deficit among us. Not all Brazilians are treated equally.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

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.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

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.

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.

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.