Basil of Caesarea Quotes

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

And Justice for Some

The poor man … will be swayed by his sense of injury against the men who try to hold what they have improperly won… the most awful passions will be let loose.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

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.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

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.'

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

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

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

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Exploit us, but exploit us fairly.

The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

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

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.