Unjust Quotes - Page 3

Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.

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.

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.

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others.

The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to the Lord, who distinguishes our cause and delivers us from the unjust and deceitful man.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

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.

The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young--a human activity which developed late.

Effective action is always unjust.

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

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

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.