Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
VoltaireRead
Injustice in the end produces independence.
Interpretation
Injustice can lead to a desire for independence and self-determination.
Voltaire's quote suggests that when people experience injustice, it can inspire them to seek personal freedom and autonomy. This reaction signifies that adversity can sometimes catalyze positive change, as those subjected to unfairness may rise to challenge their circumstances and strive for independence.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about social justice movements.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.
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Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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