Lysander Spooner Quotes

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

Injustice can never be stood for.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

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.

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law

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.

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

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

I grew up thinking the most decent job to do was to fight injustice.

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.