Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes

Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the world are genuine victims, right now. All of us will be at some point, whether it's for small matters or large, for a long duration or short. But we aren't all victims, not all the time anyway, not for everything.

Exploit us, but exploit us fairly.

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

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

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.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

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.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

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.

... an instrument of oppression and disturbance and injury instead of help to business.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

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

Can you even begin to fathom the arduous, debasing journey people endure to serve you comfortably in the luxury you are so accustomed to?

Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed.

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

Woe to them, that take away the right of the poor.