George Santayana Quotes

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

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one

There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

Discrimination is a disease.

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

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

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

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

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.

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

Much law, but little justice.

Much law, but no justice.

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

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

… injustice breeds injustice

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations

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?

Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application.

I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived.