Unjust Quotes

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

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.

An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

Ethically and politically it is important to face up to the need for a universal perspective in our divided, multi-cultural, unequal and unjust world.

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.

RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

[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.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance.

Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little unjust.

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others.

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.

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.

How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers.

I support Selfies! I think the war on selfies is really unjust!

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

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.

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God.

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.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

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.

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

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.

I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war.

[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.

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.