Simone Weil Quotes

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.

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

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for a breach is more so.

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?

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

The law is cruel.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Much law, but little justice.

Much law, but no justice.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

And Justice for Some

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

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

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

… injustice breeds injustice

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

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

A standard criticism that is always made by the opponents of justice of the proponents of justice is that the proponents are divisive.

People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change. That's something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.

In the law, you have people whose lives have changed because some dirtbag decided to do something to them. We should call it the criminal injustice system. The victim didn't choose to be a victim.

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.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.