Plato Quotes About Injustice
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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
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To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.
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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.
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Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.
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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.
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
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Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
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The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
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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?
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
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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.
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The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
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The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
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