Simone Weil Quotes

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

It is justice not charity that is wanting in the world.

Always be capable of feeling … any injustice committed against anyone anywhere in the world.

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

We have to take care of people on all sides. We need justice.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.