Unjust Quotes

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.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

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.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

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.

Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

The gods hate unjust men.

Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.

A unjust law, is no law at all.

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

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.

Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

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.

the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

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.

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.

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.

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

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.

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 .

To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas and passions of the time must lend themselves to their committal.

Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed equally to the just and the unjust.

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

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

I thought then and I think now that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust and I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

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.

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.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.