Euripides Quotes

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

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.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

If you have maximum liberty then the strong can destroy the weak, and if you have absolute equality, you cannot have absolute liberty …. Total liberty can be dreadful, total equality can be equally frightful.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose; while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose, especially their lives.

Let the natural process of war among nations smother the weak.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak

In the harsh and violent Middle East surrounding us, there is no mercy for the weak. Only the strong survive!

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.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

All oppression creates a state of war.

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Property is organized robbery.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

The majority in every society is always the backward. The diligent are no more than thirty percent of the society. It is a natural law that the diligent breed will exploit the backward breed as best they can, like the fish at sea, where the strong eat the weak. It is inconsequential whether the diligent are capitalists and merchants, as in the bourgeois government, or whether the diligent are the managers and supervisors, the intellectuals and the allotters as in the communist government. Ultimately, the diligent will exploit the laboring backward to the best of their ability.

The worker is always in the sun while the landowner is always in the shade.

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

The most dreaded of all wars, the war of the poor against the rich … will come and come with all its horrors.

To ruin those who possess something is not to come to the aid of those who possess nothing; it is only to render misery general.