Honore de Balzac Quotes

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

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

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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

And Justice for Some

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

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.

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

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

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

Well you know, all law is about injustice.