Voltaire Quotes

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

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.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

The whites tell us of their enlightened understanding, and the wisdom they have from heaven, at the same time, they cheat us to their hearts’ content. For we are as fools in their eyes, and they say among themselves, the Indians know nothing!

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

The antiquity of an abuse is no justification for its continuance.

Women to govern men, slaves freemen, are much in the same degree; all being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

The system seems to most people as rigged, and it is.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

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.

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.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.