Unjust Quotes

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

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

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

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

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

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.

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.

No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

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.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

One who breaks an unjust 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 law.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

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

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

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.

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