Denis Diderot Quotes

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

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

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

Injustice can never be stood for.

There is no justice among men.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

They taught me different was wrong.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

Much law, but little justice.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

Much law, but no justice.

The most arbitrary powers in history always hid under the claim of some impersonal logic—God, the laws of nature, the laws of the market—and they always overlooked the backlash when morally intolerable discrepancies became glaringly visible.

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.

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

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

Women to govern men, slaves freemen, are much in the same degree; all being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale.

If the United States is to survive, long standing concepts of fair play must be reconsidered.

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives

The system seems to most people as rigged, and it is.

There’s a lot of money to be made in unfairness.

Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.