Top 100 More Just Quotes
#1. Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of injustice.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible ... then may the Devil take you!
Albert Einstein
#3. Poppy shares my smile. "I think we'd all do a lot more just to see you happy, Lily.
Krista Ritchie
#4. A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
Pope Francis
#5. I can't touch him. (Jared)
Well, don't you suck. (Stryker)
Oh, believe me, I couldn't agree more. Just be grateful it's not contagious. (Jared)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#6. I hope you're enjoying it, though, duck, and not wasting all your time and energy in a thankless job. You've got to make the most of life and not let these little opportunities pass you by. Before you know it you'll be old and wrinkly like me and wishing you'd done more. Just make sure you're happy.
Giovanna Fletcher
#7. Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you're sitting in your home and you're just trying to cover what you don't want people to know. It's painful. And then you want more just so that you don't let anybody see you cry. Or anybody to see we're not happy.
Whitney Houston
#8. I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.
Moby
#9. I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character's arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you're sort of powerless to what happens.
Addison Timlin
#10. It's how the English run their courts. They sacrifice innocents, thinking to keep evil at bay, and call it a kind of justice. But they are no more just than this pole is a man.
Kathleen Kent
#11. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting. The subject
Erich Maria Remarque
#12. Sometimes I would take Nietzsche or something. And I wouldn't read it, but more just scan the words. Sometimes I would get whatever the popular thing at the time was. I don't know, something like Bret Easton Ellis. It was just a very random, inefficient education.
John Brandon
#13. If love were human I would've set them on fire by now - a screaming blaze of smoke and flesh. I'd breathe in the blackness once more just to feel love's destruction, its mortality filling in the hollow of my ribcage without a heart.
Piper Payne
#14. Harper said, "But Snuffleupagus was real."
"That is the most wonderful sentence I have ever heard. I want that on my gravestone. Snuffleupagus was real. No more. Just that.
Joe Hill
#15. Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just.
Cory Booker
#16. We are not Protestants any more - just 'non-Catholics'! Of what and of whom do we protest? Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire.
Leonard Ravenhill
#17. Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.
William Shakespeare
#18. A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#19. The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just.
Thomas Paine
#20. My wife says 90% of sex occurs between the ears. But I need a girl who can blow more just my mind.
Rodney Dangerfield
#21. Excelsior," Gansey said bleakly.
Blue asked, "What does that even mean?"
Gansey looked over his shoulder at her. He was once more, just a little bit closer to the boy she'd seen in the churchyard.
"Onward and upward.
Maggie Stiefvater
#22. It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.
P.D. James
#23. The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my unhappiness.
Franz Kafka
#24. Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more just than any - my own soul.
Ridgely Torrence
#25. The one thing I would tell everyone - myself included - would be to just chill out. Life, by design, provides us with plenty of drama without us having to augment it and invent more. Just chill.
Mark Deklin
#26. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
Henry David Thoreau
#27. I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.
Jean Tirole
#28. Mikey, she says, but not like she's about to say anything more, just like she's identifying me, making a place for me here that's mine to exist in. I want her so much, my heart feels heavy, like I'm grieving. Is this what they meant about that stomach feeling? They didn't say it felt this sad.
Patrick Ness
#29. To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!
Pope Francis
#30. Zajonc was able to make people like any word or image more just by showing it to them several times.9 The brain tags familiar things as good things. Zajonc called this the "mere exposure effect," and it is a basic principle of advertising.
Jonathan Haidt
#31. immanent in their willingness to break the law was not so much a desire to sow chaos as a compulsion to instate a more just legal order. To the extent that our current rule of law is more capacious and emancipatory than its predecessors were, we owe much of that gain to lawbreakers.
James C. Scott
#32. I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.
Henry Rollins
#33. It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.
Owen Wilson
#34. Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.
Paul Auster
#35. The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression.
Gene Sharp
#36. I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.
Chelsea Clinton
#37. Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone's on merit now.
Joe Dempsie
#38. I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
Ian McKellen
#39. At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis.
Richard Bentall
#41. Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order.
Kofi Annan
#42. I'd rather have your lifeblood tainted than spilled on a forest floor.'
He said no more, just held her. 'I'm not worth it,' she whispered at last.
'Who says so?'
'I do.'
'Then you don't know what love is.
Kate Furnivall
#43. I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.
Maynard James Keenan
#44. I believe we all share a responsibility to build a healthier, more just and prosperous world.
Mandy Moore
#46. She sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.'
'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning.
'Fair enough.
Veronica Roth
#47. An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.
Blaise Pascal
#48. Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.
George Herbert
#49. Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.
Helder Camara
#50. Don't want to see any more...feel any more. Just let me fade away...I've seen too much...too much!
Ingrid Law
#51. Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
Alexander Pope
#52. Just because you talk about it or advocate for one position doesn't mean you care more. Just because someone doesn't talk about it and advocates a different position doesn't mean they care less.
Donna Lynn Hope
#53. I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest.
Sean Lennon
#54. Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind
More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.
George Crabbe
#55. It's not even so much about publicity, it's more just letting people know that things are available, because books aren't a flash in the pan thing. It's more like: "It took 20 years for this book to be done and now it'll be on a shelf for 20 years until the right person finds it."
Ian Christe
#56. I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.
Martin O'Malley
#57. Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.
William Howard Taft
#58. If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen.
Ormond McGill
#60. By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding generations.
Ban Ki-moon
#61. You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.
Lanza Del Vasto
#62. Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.
Yuri Kochiyama
#63. Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's more just about finding the visuals and finding these characters through dialogue.
Jonathan Tropper
#64. I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
Julie Walters
#65. I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.
Anna Kendrick
#66. It takes sometime and a lot of looking around but you eventually find that your home is alot more just the house you live in.
Gabriel Ba
#67. If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.
Julian Assange
#68. It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them ... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show ... I had like five surgeries.
Phillip Phillips
#69. I want to dominate a little more, just be a level beyond everyone else. I expect that from myself.
Andre Iguodala
#70. Whether it's a double take or a spit take or an extra-long pause before a reaction or a line, I try to be as cognizant as possible about the technical end of it. So I think the physical stuff works easier for me than maybe for others who are more just going on instinct.
Neil Patrick Harris
#71. Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.
Ovid
#73. Cities are magical things. You know the energy in them. You have to walk the streets in any borough here and you can see between what was in this city in the 1970's and where it is today and how much more energy there is and how much more just sheer.
Juan Enriquez
#74. He looked like he wanted to lean down and kiss me ... YES! ... Come on!!! ... A little more ... more ... just a little closer ...
What's your favorite dog? Gunner asked as he pulled back and stood away from the door.
Kelly Elliott
#75. And it's not a finger-pointing issue to me; I take as much responsibility as I can. It was more just me not really knowing what I wanted to do and how to get it done.
Justin Guarini
#76. Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.
Noam Chomsky
#77. Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!
Pope Francis
#78. We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy.
Barack Obama
#79. I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.
Marian Wright Edelman
#80. I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.
Juliette Binoche
#81. I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.
Charles Kuralt
#82. Just for today, smile a little more. Just for today, ask someone how he or she is really doing. Just for today, remember, while some may have it better than you do, there are others whom definitely have it worse than you! Just for today, just let go, just for today ... .
James A. Murphy
#83. We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.
George Packer
#84. I've certainly collaborated with others for their songs and it's fun. To me, it's exciting to write from a place that doesn't have to be so true to my life and is more just storytelling.
The Rocket Summer
#85. I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on
Lauren Graham
#86. I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.
Neil Diamond
#87. My pursuit was more in the music thing, so I never went out pursuing movies. It was more just pursuing my singing career because people came to me for singing more than they did for doing movies.
Darlene Love
#88. Gay people do not fight for freedom to live in a lavender bubble, but in a more just society.
Urvashi Vaid
#89. It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
Simone Weil
#90. Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.
Wendy Kopp
#91. With my kids I have to get involved in the Scooby Doo games and the basic kid games that go on. I find myself getting on it more and more just because of my kids.
Jeremy Roenick
#92. He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.
Patricia Briggs
#93. I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.
Edgar Winter
#95. Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the contempt into which that rash ruling has fallen should extend to other, more just legislation.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#96. Preparing citizens to act thoughtfully to create a more just, open, and creative society gives form, substance and meaning to often abstract concepts of freedom and democracy.
Gregory S. Prince Jr.
#97. Can you guess what I'm doing?"
"Cutting my heart out."
"You took mine when I was ten; I want yours now. We are lovers of justice, you and I - what could be more just than that?
William Goldman
#98. I believe that one is never more just than at those moments when one admires unreservedly and with absolute devotion.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#99. And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.
John Dryden
#100. It was more just about serving the song, which is sort of the way that we work in general. We wanna do the best that we can with it and make it the most interesting to our ears. And putting auto-tune on 'California English', was just one reflection of that.
Chris Baio
