Unjust Quotations

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

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

Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in many cases, they, too, have allowed themselves to become allied or even part of an unjust establishment or system.

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

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

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

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.

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.

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

Any of the social changes in American history are because people thought there was injustice. We have to show that this corporate welfare and cronyism is unjust - and that it's not only rigging the system so people get wealthy who don't deserve to get wealthy.

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power.

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

These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world.

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

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

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

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

The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being.

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

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

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.

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

We found him obviously tired and haggard, unrepentant, even defiant, justifying crimes saying he was a just but firm ruler, our answer was that he was unjust ruler responsible for death of thousands of people.

unjust for those who are not entitled to them.

Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ...

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

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

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

AIDS was something that was put upon us [as haitians], and we were immediately identified with it. That is unfair. That is unjust. I always say, "We are all people living with AIDS." It's not like you can avoid it. It's part of our world.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

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

God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?

Lucio Gutierrez is innocent of the charges, ... I ask you, your honors, to do justice (and) revoke the unjust imprisonment order.

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.

Nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitution, and self-destruction

to film a documentary on the impact of the unjust embargo on the Iraqi people and (show) that Iraq has no more weapons of mass destruction.

To employ the coercive apparatus of the state in order to maintain manifestly unjust institutions is itself a form of illegitimate force that men in due course have a right to resist.

The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella, But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella

When they see something unjust and something that is wrong don't be afraid to fall back on your faith and don't be afraid to do something. Take action, do it non-violently,

He just simply doesn't want to go through the hassle any more. I don't blame him. It would be almost unjust to go further.

I think the truth is always a credible threat to illegitimate and unjust power.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

We plan to appeal this unjust ruling. There is no evidence that Mr. Simpson knew or should have known that the devices in his home were illegal. He wasn't even living in the house at the time. He was busy with his search for the real killers of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

We still adhere to our original demands, that the election was unjust and undemocratic.

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.

Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

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 .

Either you are just or unjust. If you are just, then you will not keep aloof from the people, but will listen to them and meet their requirements. But if you are unjust, the people themselves will keep away from you.

Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.

The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

We paid a lot of attention to what people were saying and that hurt us. I felt last year was unjust for us to be picked so high when we hadn't done anything to prove we deserved that.

We can take pride ... in being nuclear free and in having the strength and independence not to send our young people off to fight in unjust wars,

We believe it's absolutely unfair and unjust that they just arbitrarily say they won't pay. There could be no question in anyone's view that he is suffering from a disability. We are absolutely confident that we will prevail.

When you have unjust laws and unjust actions, people take to the streets.

While we appreciate that the president was very respectful throughout the meeting, we feel like he needs to get to know our program a lot more before he can make a well-educated decision and that to rush it would be unjust and uninformed.

We're taking every step we can think of to take. It seems so unjust that someone who has been such a careful, unbiased, sensitive reporter could be murdered for that kind of public service.

We have to do our duty, ... If I see something that I think is unjust I just want to change it.

Very often the real world is a nasty, cruel and unjust place. It's more fun to make up a proper world for oneself.

was a different kind of leader, and people knew it. His work tore apart the comfortable fabric of an unjust social contract.

And We are not unjust to them, but they themselves were unjust.

Even a writer like me, who, in 'The Firebird,' is telling the story of people who've been dead for nearly three centuries, needs to take care. Those people may not be around any longer to tell me what actually happened, but neither are they able to defend themselves against unjust portrayals.

The results of the index are sometimes unjust because they show up countries which are fighting against corruption at this moment, ... Valiant efforts are being made by President Olusegun Obasanjo to promote large-scale changes in a country have been robbed by the grand corruption of their past leaders.

The bottom line of this unjust decision is that it will present an opening for increased building of coal-fired power plants in this region. Already there are two new units proposed in Kentucky and one in Indiana, which will impact Evansville,

As one of the judges in the Court of Appeal pointed out, the interpretation so given results in unfairness. It is unjust that if insurance companies agree to insure a party to the extent of a sum in excess of the statutory minimum and collect premiums based on that sum, it is unjust to require the companies to pay over to the injured party, only the minimum coverage required by the statute.

It's a thrilling ride for the coaching staff. And it's a new group of kids each year. You always shoot to make it to the state tournament once or twice in your career. We almost feel unjust that we've been there seven times in a row.

It is unjust and unfair. Anyway, marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug.

It is this regime that started a war of genocide against the Kurdish people, then started an unjust war against our dear neighbour Iran which has often helped the Iraqi people at times of hardship.

It's unjust to create a law that will incriminate people just for working, or being human.

It's unjust and doesn't make good economic sense,

Teachers are being forced to take a stand against an unjust law. It's this government that intervened and passed an unjust law while we were negotiating within the rules they made.

It's important for people to constantly express their opposition to unjust policies. It's our patriotic duty.

Every U.S. administration since President Reagan has consistently found that the Canadian lumber industry has benefited from enormous subsidies. We will not stand for this absurd and unjust result from panelists acting outside our constitutional system of accountability.

In the event of mass falsification, we will definitely call on the people of Azerbaijan to protest against the unjust result,

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-Tlitist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

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.

If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.