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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 909 |
| AUTHOR: | Thucydides (c. 460–c. 400 B.C.) |
| QUOTATION: | Men’s indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | THUCYDIDES, The History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. Richard Crawley, book 1, p. 50 (1876). |
| SUBJECTS: | Injustice |
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