Top 100 Quotes About Unjust
#1. What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.
Bartolome De Las Casas
#2. In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than an entire nation to forget the God who made them.
Michelle Erickson
#3. I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.
Gorgias
#5. It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.
John C. Calhoun
#6. There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. For the will cannot be forced into such iniquity by anything superior or equal to it, since that would be unjust; or by anything inferior to it, since that is impossible.
Augustine Of Hippo
#8. When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes
many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy.
It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money.
War is our century's prostitution.
T. S. Eliot
#9. Men can be unjust towards me, my dear Junot,' he wrote to his faithful aide-de-camp, 'but it suffices to be innocent; my conscience is the tribunal before which I call my conduct.
Andrew Roberts
#10. My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
Vachel Lindsay
#11. All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
Thomas Sowell
#12. In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
William Penn
#13. The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
W. Somerset Maugham
#14. For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#15. There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws ... What is the difference between the two? ... An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#16. Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#17. Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day.
Paul Hoffman
#18. These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.
Cory Booker
#19. To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.
Starhawk
#21. Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you.
Walker Evans
#22. God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.
Peter Kreeft
#23. For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?
Simon Critchley
#25. If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.
Richard Stallman
#26. Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior
Desiderius Erasmus
#27. Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.
Matthew Fox
#28. If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?
Timothy Keller
#29. I prithee gentle friend,
Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway
In this uncivil and unjust extent
Against thy peace.
William Shakespeare
#30. No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.
Suzy Kassem
#32. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#33. I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#34. The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young
a human activity which developed late.
Sigmund Freud
#35. Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.
Oliver Cromwell
#36. Every unjust man is unjust against his will.
Plato
#37. He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#38. But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.
Plutarch
#39. It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#40. A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.
Edmund Burke
#42. You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.
Connie Nielsen
#43. When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato
#44. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.
Noah Webster
#45. Lilliputians think nothing can be more unjust, than for people, in subservience to their own appetites, to bring children into the world, and leave the burthen of supporting them on the public. As
Jonathan Swift
#46. In his anxiety to be just to others he was often prepared to be unjust to himself. He was always ready to sacrifice his own rights rather than run any rish of infringing the rights of others.
Aldous Huxley
#48. Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#49. You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
Alan Greenspan
#50. Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#51. Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike ... except in California.
Alan Moore
#52. Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo
#53. Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.
Jacob Frank
#54. Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.
Jonathan Kozol
#55. Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
Dennis Prager
#56. It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.
Jane Austen
#57. The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
Max Stirner
#58. Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.
Robert Fanney
#59. All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
Eglantyne Jebb
#60. Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much
who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.
Kurt Vonnegut
#61. Saying of the Prophet
Truth
Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.
Idries Shah
#62. Joseph's trials were unjust, inexplicable and heartrending. Yet Joseph knew God, and he knew that God had a plan.
K. Howard Joslin
#63. What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.
Maggie Q
#64. Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
James Madison
#65. The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.
Milton Steinberg
#66. Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#67. He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.
Marcus Aurelius
#68. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington
#69. One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#71. Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ...
Eliza Haywood
#72. Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
Rita Mae Brown
#74. Falling as deeply in love with as many people, places, and things as you possibly can -- that's the best revenge on the unjust brevity of this fragile life.
Marc Parent
#75. If you think your desires are selfish or cruel, hate yourself. If you think the world unjust, then hate your god.
Katherine Pine
#76. Because people fight most fiercely when they dare not admit even to themselves that their cause is unjust.
Robert Silverberg
#77. There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert Camus
#78. Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in many cases, they, too, have allowed themselves to become allied or even part of an unjust establishment or system.
Sean MacBride
#79. Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed
Paulo Freire
#80. When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.
Theodor Haecker
#81. Poverty calls us to sow hope ... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.
Pope Francis
#82. I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.
Emanuel Celler
#83. As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#84. Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder
Rohinton Mistry
#85. Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#86. Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the law of that which is to be.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.
Rebecca Rasmussen
#88. A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.
Euripides
#89. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You
Cheryl Strayed
#90. We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen the road to exile in order that our people will not be exterminated and in order to consecrate ourselves wholly and in peace to the preservation of our empire's independence.
Haile Selassie
#91. God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?
Abdu'l- Baha
#92. Upon this crown my pledge I give,
To my last breath,I hold this choice,
I will your unjust deaths avenge,
All here who died without a voice.
Suzanne Collins
#93. Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.
Isaiah
#94. It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
Adam Smith
#95. To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes
#96. If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
#97. [Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.
Mikhail Bakunin
#98. Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.
John Milton
#99. Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.
Dale Carnegie
#100. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
