14 results for stemmed:injustic
Those who look upon physical life as inferior to some other more perfect spiritual existence do a great injustice to physical existence in general. Physical life is everywhere filled with the universal energy that is its source, so it can hardly be inferior to it’s own composition.
(There followed a discussion about the place of protest and violence in the world today—this violence as a means to correct injustice and to get people to accept all other people and their “thing” without prejudice or the judgment of someone else’s values. [...]
You of all people should realize that when valid concern for world problems turns into an obsession with world injustices that wipes out all, or threatens to wipe out all personal enjoyment, then trouble is on the way. [...]
Social injustices can cause circumstances in which people will give up reason, logic, and personal responsibility to follow a leader who offers them protection from an unsafe universe. [...]
[...] The businessman who believed in Darwinian principles and the fight for survival, who justified injustice and perhaps thievery to his ideal of surviving in a competitive world — he suddenly turns into a fundamentalist in religious terms, trying to gain his sense of power now, perhaps, by giving away the wealth he has amassed, all in a tangled attempt to express a natural idealism in a practical world.
I have told you often that you do yourselves a grave injustice by limiting your conception of the self. [...]
With his mother dead it seemed highly unsporting to cast, for example, any aspersions or express fresh anger against injustice. [...]
In a way, however, Seth may do Jane and me something of an injustice when he remarks, for instance, that the Sumari “don’t hang around to cut the grass….” [...]
Neither of us was bitter about such a God’s apparent injustices—we didn’t pay Him that much attention. [...]
To a large degree, however, and for many people, he did remove the idea of God’s injustice, even if he removed the image of God in the process. [...]
When this builds up and enough small legitimate injustices are borne, docilely, then we have an explosion of a sorts. [...]