Unjust Quotes

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

If your ruler is just, then praise God; but if he is unjust, pray to God to rid you of him.

Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.

Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.

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.

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

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.

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.

I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

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.

To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.

Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Effective action is always unjust.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

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.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

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.

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

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.

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.