Plato Quotes About Injustice

Quotes about: Injustice

• The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Justice, Form

• When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.185, Penguin

• To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

  Plato

  Suffering, Injustice, Disgraceful

  Plato (2012). “Gorgias and Timaeus”, p.117, Courier Corporation

• The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

  Plato

  Suffering, Injustice

• The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

  Plato

  Injustice, Highest

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.243, Xist Publishing

• Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

  Plato

  Spiritual, Men, Evil

  Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.72, First Avenue Editions

• Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

  Plato

  Suffering, Injustice, Censure

• SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?

  Plato

  Convince Us, Justice, Soul

  Plato (1892). “Republic. Timaeus. Critias”

• Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

  Plato

  Suffering, Injustice, Reproach

  Plato, G. M. A. Grube (1992). “Republic (Grube Edition)”, p.20, Hackett Publishing

• To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

  Plato

  Evil, Justice, Injustice

• Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

  Plato

  Plato, May, Injustice

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.227, Xist Publishing

• Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

  Plato

  Army, Honor, Doe

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.256

• The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

  Plato

  Pain, Anger, Envy

• To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

  Plato

  Evil, Soul, World

  Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.114

• But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

  Plato

  Running, Strong, Thinking

  Plato (0101). “Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

• Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

  Plato

  Equality, Justice, Suffering

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