Motif
small injustice growing into large oppression
small_injustice_growing_into_large_oppression
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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persian
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The Persian Literature, Volume 2, The Gulistan SA'DI / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I / XVIII; lines 892-983 confidence: high
Nushirowan explains that oppression begins small: if a king takes one apple, his attendants may uproot the tree; if he sanctions five stolen eggs, troops may roast a thousand fowls.
Nushirowan says oppression begins small and accumulates, using the examples of a single apple leading to an uprooted tree and five eggs leading to mass plunder.
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