Unjust Quotes - Page 4

I prithee gentle friend, Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent Against thy peace.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

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.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims.

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.

A unjust law, is no law at all.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.

The gods hate unjust men.

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

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

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 .