Unjust famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is no justice in following unjust laws.
-- Aaron Swartz -
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 -
It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.
-- Albert Camus -
Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .
-- Albert Pike -
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.
-- Aly Khan -
There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
-- Anne Frank -
The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.
-- Aristotle -
A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.
-- Bernadette Devlin -
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.
-- Bryan Stevenson -
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.
-- Charles XII of Sweden -
Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.
-- Charley Reese -
[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.
-- Charley Reese -
I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.
-- Chelsea Clinton -
Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.
-- Cheryl Strayed -
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
-- Confucius -
To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.
-- Dean Koontz -
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
-- Edmund Burke -
The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied
-- Edward Jenks -
All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
-- Eglantyne Jebb -
those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ...
-- Eliza Haywood -
I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.
-- Emanuel Celler -
a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
-- Frances Hodgson Burnett -
Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.
-- George Washington -
...the disqualification is unjust, I understand his reaction. You must understand the riders at certain moments (like climbing an 18% hill) they are stressed and they can react rashly.
-- Gilberto Simoni -
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 -
American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
-- Hanoi Hannah -
I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called "Israel." I consider its presence both unjust and unlawful.
-- Hassan Nasrallah -
How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!
-- Henry Clay -
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
-- Henry George -
The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy." The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction. "I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failed in this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove my undoing.
-- Ilona Andrews -
One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.
-- Imagawa Sadayo -
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
-- Isaac Asimov -
The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.
-- Isabel Allende -
If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.
-- J. C. Ryle -
Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.
-- Jacob Frank -
Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.
-- Jean Racine -
I am a woman. I was devastated, and I felt that excluding me for the reason that they gave was unjust. I have never asked for any special consideration. I only wanted to compete.
-- Jenna Talackova -
the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.
-- Jessica Mitford -
Unjust force can never give any just dominion.
-- John Arbuthnot -
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.
-- John Dryden -
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.
-- John Milton -
Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.
-- John Milton -
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.
-- John Milton -
The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.
-- John Rawls -
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.
-- John Rawls -
A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.
-- John Rawls -
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 -
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
-- Jose Narosky -
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 -
Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.
-- Julien Offray de La Mettrie -
If you do not clean up your sociaty now, therefore the legacy you have left for your children is nothing other than an unjust society.
-- Khem Veasna -
While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.
-- Lew Wallace -
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
-- Lord Acton -
Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.
-- Ludwig Feuerbach -
Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.
-- Luigi Pirandello -
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.
-- Lysander Spooner -
I suppose it doesn't occur to you that I can think the system just as unjust as you do.
-- Malorie Blackman -
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
-- Margaret Drabble -
The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.
-- Mark Twain -
A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.
-- Matthew Scully -
Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.
-- Maurice Druon -
Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain. It´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. We don´t grasp these things silently, and then put words to them; language is the medium through which we discern and deliberate about the good.
-- Michael Sandel -
Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.
-- Miguel de Unamuno -
The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.
-- Muriel Spark -
When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
-- Nawal El Saadawi -
For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen sense of justice.
-- Ndabaningi Sithole -
Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.
-- Pascal Lamy -
People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
-- Philip Roth -
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 -
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 -
Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.
-- Robert Dale Owen -
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
-- Saint Augustine -
Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
-- Sophocles -
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
-- Ted Olson -
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 -
He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
-- Thomas Aquinas -
Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.
-- Tim Robbins -
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.
-- Ugo Betti -
If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.
-- Umar -
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
-- Victor Hugo -
I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
-- W. S. Gilbert -
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
-- W. Somerset Maugham -
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
-- William Hazlitt -
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.
-- William Penn -
We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.
-- Winifred Holtby -
God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?
-- Abdu'l-Bahá
