Mohammad Javad Zarif Quotes

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

It is nobody's right to be waited on and nobody's fate to do the waiting.

Each one of our ideas should benefit the people with less power than us.

Solidarity forever …. We stand outcast and starving from the wonders we have made.

When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example of the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

A girl born in Drumchapel in Glasgow has just as much right to good health and the opportunities provided by a good education as a Surrey stockbroker's son.

The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.

It's impossible to play football in a world among men and not fight for equality.

I don't really have a political agenda, I just like things to be fair - I get angered by pomposity and privilege.

As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is a privilege that other folk I know don't have. It's important to keep in mind who really is in the most trouble and to direct our attention to assisting those people.

My kids are really into social justice.

Everyone is beautiful, and the world isn't equal - and we need to fight towards that.

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat.

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.

One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied.

I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.