Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

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

I think when you see that the status quo creates pain and anguish and suffering, what I am most afraid of is that things will stay the same.

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

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.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

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

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

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

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