Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Injustice

Quotes about: Injustice

• The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Power, Men, Atheism

• Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Law, Action

  Michel de Montaigne (1947). “Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

• It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Father, Broken

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.280, Stanford University Press

• I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Too Much, Injustice

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.849, Stanford University Press

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