Unjust Quotes

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.

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

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

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

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

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.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.

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

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

Effective action is always unjust.

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.

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.

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.

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.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

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

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.

All government wars are unjust.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.