Aristophanes Quotes

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.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

The world is not equal, unfortunately.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

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.

The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

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.'

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.