Unjust Quotes

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.

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.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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

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

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

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

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

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.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

Effective action is always unjust.

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

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.

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